[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #39775] Consistent treatment of octal and hexadecimal escape sequences in double-quoted strings

[John W. Eaton]

Follow-up Comment #6, bug #39775 (project octave):

The comment in the code and the explanation in the documentation does say that
the value produced by more than two hex digits is implementation defined, same
as for C and C++, so the current behavior seems fine to me.

But I don't care too much one way or the other.  An error would also be OK
with me.

Note that someday we may make characters 16 bits wide for compatibility with
Matlab.  So 2 is the limit now, but might not be in the future.

I also don't think that forcing 2 characters to be used is better than
allowing 1 or 2 (or 3 or 4).


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