Re: Unicode string literals versus the world

From: "David E(dot) Wheeler" <david(at)kineticode(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>
Subject: Re: Unicode string literals versus the world
Date: 2009-04-14 18:31:47
Message-ID: 694E44F6-4FD5-4E34-B748-83025B64FB24@kineticode.com
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On Apr 14, 2009, at 11:22 AM, Tom Lane wrote:

> BTW, does anyone know whether Unicode includes the ASCII control
> characters ... ie, is \u0009 a name for tab? If so, maybe this
> syntax is in part an attempt to cover that use-case in the standard.

Yes, you can use, e.g., &#x0009; in HTML to represent a tab character.

Best,

David

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