Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79144 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17697 invoked from network); 24 Nov 2014 23:45:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Nov 2014 23:45:29 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=addw@phcomp.co.uk; sender-id=permerror Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=addw@phcomp.co.uk; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain phcomp.co.uk designates 78.32.209.33 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: addw@phcomp.co.uk X-Host-Fingerprint: 78.32.209.33 freshmint.phcomp.co.uk Received: from [78.32.209.33] ([78.32.209.33:41619] helo=mint.phcomp.co.uk) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 39/65-21335-813C3745 for ; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 18:45:29 -0500 Received: from addw by mint.phcomp.co.uk with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1Xt3Jt-0003kT-BA for internals@lists.php.net; Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:45:25 +0000 Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2014 23:45:25 +0000 To: internals@lists.php.net Message-ID: <20141124234525.GC6315@phcomp.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: internals@lists.php.net References: <20141124232911.GB6315@phcomp.co.uk> <7D59D9FF-F8ED-4015-A34A-144A9367A589@ajf.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <7D59D9FF-F8ED-4015-A34A-144A9367A589@ajf.me> Organization: Parliament Hill Computers Ltd User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] Unicode Escape Syntax From: addw@phcomp.co.uk (Alain Williams) On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 11:36:28PM +0000, Andrea Faulds wrote: > > > On 24 Nov 2014, at 23:29, Alain Williams wrote: > > echo "\U{arabic letter alef}\n”; > > Ooh, that’s an interesting idea. I believe Perl actually has this already, although it uses the \N syntax: > > http://perldoc.perl.org/perlreref.html#ESCAPE-SEQUENCES > > Is something like that what you have in mind? Exactly. Confession: it was looking at the perl documentation that led me to suggest it. -- Alain Williams Linux/GNU Consultant - Mail systems, Web sites, Networking, Programmer, IT Lecturer. +44 (0) 787 668 0256 http://www.phcomp.co.uk/ Parliament Hill Computers Ltd. Registration Information: http://www.phcomp.co.uk/contact.php #include