Re: proposal: unescape_text function

On 2020-11-30 22:15, Pavel Stehule wrote:
>     I would like some supporting documentation on this.  So far we only
>     have
>     one stackoverflow question, and then this implementation, and they are
>     not even the same format.  My worry is that if there is not precise
>     specification, then people are going to want to add things in the
>     future, and there will be no way to analyze such requests in a
>     principled way.
> 
> 
> I checked this and it is "prefix backslash-u hex" used by Java, 
> JavaScript  or RTF - 
> https://billposer.org/Software/ListOfRepresentations.html

Heh.  The fact that there is a table of two dozen possible 
representations kind of proves my point that we should be deliberate in 
picking one.

I do see Oracle unistr() on that list, which appears to be very similar 
to what you are trying to do here.  Maybe look into aligning with that.