Re: How switch from escaped octal character code to escaped HEX?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 03.01.2011 um 11:13 schrieb Deniz Dogan:

> I read on Wikipedia: "Octal representation of non-ASCII bytes may be
> particularly handy with UTF-8, where any start byte has octal value
> \3nn and any continuation byte has octal value \2nn."
>
> Is this the reason perhaps?

Certainly not! GNU Emacs was octal before someone imagined "Unicode"...

It comes from sparse memory. One byte is two nibbles! (1 € is almost 2  
ancient DM.) UNIX file permissions are octal. C is great in shifting  
bits around.

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