On Sat, 11 Sep 2021 at 22:01:52 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > Well then best is probably to e.g. document the \0xxx and mention that > any other use of \ needs to have that quoted or it may have a special > meaning?
Right, that's what I was hinting at in https://bugs.debian.org/901795#128 :-) | I'd argue that ‘\’ is a special character which per documentation | “needs to be escaped using octal sequences”, so both ‘\n’ and ‘\xHH’ | yield unspecified behavior, but I guess that can be made explicit. -- Guilhem.
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