On Tuesday 12 December 2006 21:34, Jason Wharton wrote:

> I added numerical digits to the list of characters to escape because
> numerical digits are used when certain ASCII characters are escaped

you make me curious. How do you escape certain ASCII characters?

I would have expected something like \123 where 123 is the decimal
or maybe the octal code but that is obviously not possible since
if \1 is the same as 1, \123 is 123 (three characters)


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Wolfgang