[bitc-dev] Newline conventions

Jonathan S. Shapiro shap at eros-os.org
Sat Feb 18 10:16:04 EST 2006


On Sat, 2006-02-18 at 08:24 -0500, Kevin Reid wrote:
> How will one represent characters above U+FFFF? If the hexadecimal  
> field is variable-width, how will one represent the string "•02" with  
> the bullet escaped?

Thanks!

Two questions in response:

1. Before I invent something, is there an existing convention that can
be used that already deals with this?

2. Failing that, I'm thinking \{U+FFF..FF} which is quite horrible, but
at least has the merit of being parsable.

shap



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