bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string

Stefan Monnier <[email protected]> Mon, 02 Nov 2009 02:17:10 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs,gmane.emacs.pretest.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> "\ue1" gives the error "Non-hex digit used for Unicode escape".
> Why doesn't it work to give the Unicode character á?

I think you mean \u00e1

> Note that \xe1 does not work for this any more.

Indeed, this refers to the byte 225 rather than to the char 225.

> That too is confusing, and certainly not documented clearly where \x
> is explained.  Is there any way to specify unicode e1 with \x?

\x00e1 also works like \u00e1.


        Stefan