Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jim Meyering wrote: >> Paul Eggert added this feature 8 years ago > > Well, all honours to Paul, but this feature I did submit to you on 2000-02-02.
Oh! Sorry to misattribute that. I looked at the wrong ChangeLog entry. >> I don't know the motivation for those exceptions. > > The motivation is that the ISO C 99 standard has these exceptions: > > ISO C 99, 6.4.3(2): > "Constraints > A universal character name shall not specify a character whose short > identifier is less than 00A0 other than 0024 ($), 0040 (@), or 0060 (`), > nor one in the range D800 through DFFF inclusive." > > and I find it undesirable to have different variants of the same concept in ... Thanks for explaining. > You are entitled to your opinion. So that you cannot call it "bugs" any more, > I propose to make the restriction explicit in the coreutils manual: > > 2008-05-14 Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > * doc/coreutils.texi (printf invocation): Clarify invalid ranges for > Unicode character escape syntax. And for the patch! Applied. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
