SeriousBusiness101
SeriousBusiness101
Preferring escape sequences to UTF-8 in source is a common coding standard, one reason being security. Directionalities, dingbats, emojis, diacritics, logograms, notations, controls... shouldn't or can't be printed in source...
> Reopening since... https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14656 was closed, citing https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/1099. The two proposals are mutually exclusive with different use cases. > This issue strongly resembles https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/14656 which should provide a point of...

fmt shouldn't touch up hex escape sequences in zon and extern identifiers (`.@"\x0a"` => `.@"\n"`)
Input: ```js .{ .@"\x01" = .{""}, .@"\x02" = .{""}, .@"\x03" = .{""}, .@"\x04" = .{""}, .@"\x05" = .{""}, .@"\x06" = .{""}, .@"\x07" = .{""}, .@"\x08" = .{""}, .@"\x09" = .{""},...
| Sequence | Name | {N} | | -------- | ----------------- | --------------------- | | `\x{N}` | hexadecimal value | 32 digits >= 1 digits | | | | |...
This one's long overdue; I'm writing an empirical thesis on character encoding, using **ZON** for serializing / declaring various data, because of readability, comments, and nativity. In order of significance...