Subject: Re: bug#4848: 23.1.50; \u and \x in string

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:57:07 -0500

> Why shouldn't \ue1 work?

    Because the \u format is \uNNNN with exactly 4 hex digits.

In other words, "it doesn't work because we decided it should't work".
But why should't it work?  Why shouldn't two digits be allowed?

Is there a good reason not to allow that?