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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished
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Tom Lord |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished |
Date: |
Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:36:39 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>
> Actualy, there are two escaping shchemes already widely used:
> 1) XML Entities: &#<unicode-codepoint-number>;
> 2) Old C's scheme extended for unicode:
> \u<unicode-codepoint-number-in hexa>
> Why does hackerlab/pika/tla invent another one?
> (The argument that R5RS only requires \" is clear to me, but does not
> look sufficient to me).
Regarding C's: how many hex digits go there? It seems to me that the
only sane ways to escape unicode codepoints in a string all involve a
delimited hex number. C's syntax is also no good for having
multi-character symbolic names for characters (for the same reason --
delimeter issues).
Regarding XML: it's simply a judgement call on my part about where the
greatest potential for synergies arise. XML sure gets a lot of
exercise, but the toolsets that have arisen around it don't really
impress me as giving a lot of leverage in this situation (and, not
without reason). The Scheme-derived syntax, which I'm working with
some sucess on turning into an Official Standard, I think will turn
out to work better with other tools in the medium to longer term.
It's just a judgement call....I can't prove it. Yes, it's an
"underdog" bet but, that's where I laid my money down.
-t
- [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, chth, 2004/03/14
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Mikhael Goikhman, 2004/03/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Tom Lord, 2004/03/17
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, chth, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished,
Tom Lord <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/26
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, John Meacham, 2004/03/18
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] ANNOUNCE: Spaces in filenames, finished, Jan Hudec, 2004/03/19