Re: entering Unicode characters as hex numbers not documented

[Juri Linkov]

>> > Input method: ucs (mode line indicator:U)
>> >
>> > Input as Unicode: U<hex> or u<hex>, where <hex> is a four-digit hex number.
>>
>> On a par with the recent proposal about \uXXXX and \UXXXXXXXX
>> notation, shouldn't this input method differentiate between upper-
>> and lower-case variants, and accept U<hex> with a 8-digit hex
>> number?
>
> Hmm, 6 hex digits are sufficient to cover Unicode.  I think that
> within that input encoding, *any* number of 1-6 hex digits should be
> valid.

If you mean that any non-digit character should terminate the input
like in most other multi-character input methods, then I agree.

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Juri Linkov
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