Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla-update-ids lacks support for filenames with spaces

[Robert Collins]

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 12:48, Miles Bader wrote:

> Hmmm.  I do most of my actual processing in awk, and I suppose I could
> always expand simple escapes; however I'm not really sure what to do
> some of the escape sequences tla uses; for instance:
> 
>    $ tla escape "`echo -e 'hello\377world'`"
>    hello\(U+FF)world
> 
> Does this mean that there can be "\(U" escapes with values greater than 255?

Yes - unicode is much larger than 8 bit.

> No clue what to do in that case...

Rob
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