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| author | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-02-14 04:03:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tim Peters <tim.peters@gmail.com> | 2001-02-14 04:03:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 7530208d8b1a20a0c1a94eeec451beae6a6ba80c (patch) | |
| tree | 6a093821dd79a428b5835fb15b6d9d63e4b4a3ad /Doc | |
| parent | 162c6a637a6a1389b6802a99cbe2781435990d47 (diff) | |
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Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.
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diff --git a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex index d1503b4..3a8bba2 100644 --- a/Doc/ref/ref2.tex +++ b/Doc/ref/ref2.tex @@ -358,10 +358,8 @@ to those used by Standard \C{}. The recognized escape sequences are: \end{tableii} \index{ASCII@\ASCII{}} -In strict compatibility with Standard C, up to three octal digits are -accepted, but an unlimited number of hex digits is taken to be part of -the hex escape (and then the lower 8 bits of the resulting hex number -are used in 8-bit implementations). +As in Standard C, up to three octal digits are accepted. However, +exactly two hex digits are taken in hex escapes. Unlike Standard \index{unrecognized escape sequence}C, all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the string unchanged, |