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Invalid oct number convertion in string

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From: nalaginrut <nalaginrut <at> gmail.com>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 13008 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13008: Invalid oct number convertion in string
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 10:32:04 +0800

On Tue, 2012-11-27 at 23:44 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> nalaginrut <nalaginrut <at> gmail.com> skribis:
> 
> > scheme@(guile-user)> (format #t "\033[32;31mhello\033[5m")
> 
> Here, \0 is taken to mean #\nul, and then there are two #\3.
> 
> IOW, there is no such syntax for octal escapes (info "(guile) String
> Syntax").
> 
> What made you think otherwise?
> 

Thanks for reply!
It's fine in ruby-1.9 and python2, but python3 failed.
IIRC, Andy told me that guile2/python3 use "character string" rather
than "byte string", so there's different from others.

Now my question is, should we have octal-escapes? Is is impossible or
not implemented yet?

Thanks!

> Thanks,
> Ludo’.

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