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| author | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-06-01 23:00:23 -0700 |
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| committer | H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> | 2008-06-01 23:00:23 -0700 |
| commit | e8a092976eefc0a29071d52f671c43aec90160cb (patch) | |
| tree | 1be334b607b22eb9a5d469d3f8c86488ca9bc356 | |
| parent | 677befc4614e75eb6f8c35c29254d3eebb3d149d (diff) | |
| download | nasm-e8a092976eefc0a29071d52f671c43aec90160cb.tar.gz | |
Document UTF-8 conversion better, use "byte" instead of "ASCII"
ASCII specifically refers to characters <= 127, so to use "ASCII" for
literal bytes is really confusing in a multibyte environment. Give an
example of using Unicode escapes.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/nasmdoc.src | 13 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/nasmdoc.src b/doc/nasmdoc.src index 07a60053..81de0693 100644 --- a/doc/nasmdoc.src +++ b/doc/nasmdoc.src @@ -1482,16 +1482,21 @@ The following escape sequences are recognized by backquoted strings: \c \f FF (ASCII 12) \c \r CR (ASCII 13) \c \e ESC (ASCII 27) -\c \377 Up to 3 octal digits - ASCII literal -\c \xFF Up to 2 hexadecimal digits - ASCII literal +\c \377 Up to 3 octal digits - literal byte +\c \xFF Up to 2 hexadecimal digits - literal byte \c \u1234 4 hexadecimal digits - Unicode character \c \U12345678 8 hexadecimal digits - Unicode character All other escape sequences are reserved. Note that \c{\\0}, meaning a -\c{NUL} character, is a special case of the octal escape sequence. +\c{NUL} character (ASCII 0), is a special case of the octal escape +sequence. Unicode characters specified with \c{\\u} or \c{\\U} are converted to -UTF-8. +UTF-8. For example, the following lines are all equivalent: + +\c db `\u263a` ; UTF-8 smiley face +\c db `\xe2\x98\xba` ; UTF-8 smiley face +\c db 0E2h, 098h, 0BAh ; UTF-8 smiley face \S{strconst} String Constants |