On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 06:04:43PM +0300, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>> Man that's ugly. Why the ampersand?
>
> Yeah, excellent question. It seems completely unnecessary, but it is
> surely there in the syntax diagram.
Probably because many Unicode representations are done with "U+"
followed by 4-6 hexadecimal units, but "+" is problematic for other
reasons (in some vendor's implementation)?
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