Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoú lá is fiche de mí Aibréan, scríobh Stefan Monnier: 

 > There are two known workarounds:
 > - encode your file in utf-8.
 > - use an elisp expression like (decode-char 'ucs <foo>).
 > Neither of them is quite what you want, but I've found them good enough for
 > the cases I've had to deal with.

Sure, and encoding your file as ISO-8859-1 and using (char-to-int #xff)
would be possible were the escapes for Latin-1 not available. I will
certainly be using both your approaches for years to come, since making my
code pointlessly incompatible with existing editors is not a good idea. The
\u syntax is sugar, but it is used quite a bit in those languages that have
it, which seems to testify to its usefulness.

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