[stringtemplate-interest] escape char

[Terence Parr]

well, what if i'm generating latex with all it's \box and \tt  
commands?  My rule is that i completely ignore everything outside of  
expressions like <...>. So, it wouldn't make sense to convert \u0009  
to a tab for example.

Ter
On Oct 12, 2009, at 5:34 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 01:56:57PM -0700, Terence Parr wrote:
>> So, I'm leaning towards only \< or \$ being an escape sequence  
>> outside
>> of expressions.  \blech would be \blech in the output not blech.  I
>> thik that's how it is now.
>
> Glad you asked :)
>
> Very usefully, YAML (yaml.org) crowd have been deeply involved in just
> this question, for yaml, in respect of UTF8 vs "Unicode" vs UTF16 etc.
>
> So I refer you to the yaml-core mailing list. Specifically, the
> following thread/ subject (it is split into two threads actually, the
> first one being the main large one):
>
>   Invalid UTF-8
>
> first thread kicked off by "William Spitzak", on 2009 08 18
> second thread kicked off by "Blue GM", on 2009 09 03
>
>
> I implore a reading of these discussions as have occurred in very  
> useful
> detail on yaml-core, as getting escapes 'right' (although more
> particularly for a stream markup/ serialization syntax) is essential  
> for
> long term sanity. It would behoove us STians to not follow the same
> sequence of not-quite-get-it-right three times in a row. Thankfully  
> some
> smart brains appeared on yaml-core to resolve the issues in the most
> practical long-term way possible. Let's take advantage of that.
>
>
> If that yaml discussion (Invalid UTF-8) rings true, then we can sort  
> of
> copy-n-paste the corresponding section on escapes in the YAML
> Specification (oh, did I mention an ST spec might be a good  
> thing? :) :)
>
> Best
> Zen
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