I see that this was only a passing issue. R-devel r79638 and greater (also tested with r79801) print six digits inside curly brace delimiters, like so: "\U{016fe4}1" (using the example below). This ensures compatibility between output and input.
- Mikko
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L?hett?j?: R-devel <r-devel-bounces at r-project.org> Puolesta Korpela Mikko (MML)
L?hetetty: maanantai 14. joulukuuta 2020 11.51
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Aihe: [Rd] Printing Unicode escapes with 6 digits may be problematic
A recent R-devel commit introduces a change in the way non-printable Unicode characters are shown as an escape code. Whereas large code points were previously printed using an escape code of 8 hexadecimal digits, with initial zeros, the present code (tested with R-devel r79623 on Ubuntu Linux) only prints 6 hex digits. I think this may be problematic: it is now possible that R prints a character string which is not valid when reused as an input. See the following example.
"\U{16FE4}1"
# [1] "\U016fe41"
"\U016fe41"
# Error: invalid \Uxxxxxxxx value 16fe41 (line 1)
Best regards,
- Mikko Korpela
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Printing Unicode escapes with 6 digits may be problematic
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