[Uim] Re: Octal numbered char expression is not supported in SigScheme (was: uim 1.4.0-beta released)

[Etsushi Kato]

On 1/8/07, Etsushi Kato <ek.kato at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 1/8/07, YAMAMOTO Kengo / YamaKen <yamaken at bp.iij4u.or.jp> wrote:
> > I've found a problem on 1.4.0 in quote_word() of skk.c. Please
> > consider a workaround.
> >
> > Since octal numbered char is not supported in SigScheme (and
> > R5RS), the quoted strings "\\057" and "\\073" may not work. Are
> > these strings expected to be read by uim's Scheme reader
> > directly? If yes, alternative escape method or decoder is
> > required.
>
> I used this octal numbers to be compatible with emacs's SKK.  Of
> course I can use normal char for it.  But compatibility will be lost.
> Is it OK?

Oops, these octal numbers are actually read by skk.c itself.  And uim'
Scheme reader is not related (see expand_str() in skk.c).  So this
doesn't matter at all.

Cheers,
-- 
Etsushi Kato
ek.kato at gmail.com