On Fri, Mar 27, 2020 at 11:15:12PM -0500, David Wright wrote: > (BTW I'm not sure about Reco's use of \uc899. Does \u mean that > c899 is in utf-8, or should it be followed by a Unicode codepoint, > as in U+c899? If the latter, then \uc899 is way off my charts.)
It's a notation used in some programming tools/environments to denote a Unicode code point. E.g. bash's printf and $'...' accept \unnnn or \Unnnnnnnn to denote Unicode code points using either 4 or 8 hex digits. $ printf '\u00f1\n' ñ
