EBCDIC control characters

[Richard Wordingham]

On Thu, 18 Jun 2020 16:14:19 -0700
Ken Whistler via Unicode <unicode at unicode.org> wrote:

> On 6/18/2020 12:22 PM, Corentin wrote:
> > The specific case that people are talking about is indeed string
> > literals such as "\x06\u0086" where the hexadecimal escape is meant
> > to be an ebcdic character and the \uxxxx is meant to be be an
> > unicode character such that the
> > hexadecimal sequence would map to that character, and whether, in
> > that very odd scenario, they are or not the same character, and 
> > whether they should be distinguishable  
> > The question was in particular whether we should use "a super set
> > of unicode" instead of "unicode" in that intermediate step.  

> Answer no. That will cause you nothing but trouble going forward.

Isn't there still the issue of supporting U+0000 in C-type strings?

Richard.