Re: Text representation of control characters?

Subject: Re: Text representation of control characters?
From: Matthias Clasen <clasen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1998 12:55:58 +0200
> 
> Hello world,
> 
> Looking in style/charNames.h, I see that \space; is a text
> representation for &#x0020;, but there appear to be no text
> representations for control characters below space.
> 
> This means I have to resort to things like this:
> 
> (let ((newline #\
> ))
> 
> which is really ugly.  Is there a better way?
> 

Shouldn't it in theory be possible to assign arbitrary names
to Unicode characters using the character-repertoire element
in the DSSSL architecture ? This is of course not supported in
jade.

Matthias

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