Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:79487 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 40876 invoked from network); 9 Dec 2014 02:15:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 9 Dec 2014 02:15:01 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=xmilky@gmail.com; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=xmilky@gmail.com; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain gmail.com designates 209.85.215.45 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: xmilky@gmail.com X-Host-Fingerprint: 209.85.215.45 mail-la0-f45.google.com Received: from [209.85.215.45] ([209.85.215.45:48703] helo=mail-la0-f45.google.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id FA/10-39368-32B56845 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 21:14:59 -0500 Received: by mail-la0-f45.google.com with SMTP id gq15so4941037lab.4 for ; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:14:56 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=jUyOUcDXcLzQgS67fIOIhB714Yax/8w1PXLzSVM+j7c=; b=wbJp6T4HvMc5AZQeDm4rviKOg/T3yvv/iHzLP5nhVZ5WK1YWZAtk//zH7uO0c/dWSw 7ylC8iOrdDueLhs8dy5Jgwumb9fJBZSrmh3vVIlE/zl9/Bi5SnFN+ZhpMYoehSaXHbB0 QQVVLNjV3MqhK6gY2XwLujgFdGlIkWCKZbSJJQtH3+hhj7oT18v/a05Q5S8+xXA2UByz 0QuchshTqsu4Yo5o2WDiXq1pC7a4Hf4M6LoMpbNoWIQrvY7XB4xostrWtbU4r3lACNky aSFv/kiYbI8CB9czM/dpQFUcJPSLl4mJ071jgGvdPim+/RGwN35N+GUPuU2bPeObC+NY EMSw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.45.228 with SMTP id q4mr19532373lbm.35.1418091296250; Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:14:56 -0800 (PST) Sender: xmilky@gmail.com Received: by 10.25.33.17 with HTTP; Mon, 8 Dec 2014 18:14:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 03:14:56 +0100 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 4Jtfxi1st1Hrhqw4CAJTgPVjhc4 Message-ID: To: Andrea Faulds Cc: internals Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [VOTE][RFC] Unicode Codepoint Escape Syntax From: mario@include-once.org 2014-12-09 0:51 GMT+01:00 Andrea Faulds : > > https://wiki.php.net/rfc/unicode_escape Still leaves unmentioned that there was already an established Unicode escape syntax. PCRE provides \x{1F520} for codepoints in conjunction to plain \xFF for byte escapes. Maybe there should be more elaboration on why PHP itself should go with the \u{xxxx} ECMAScript representaton, thus introducing a syntax disparity with our most major string handling extension.