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Feeble attempt to repair obsolete info about hex escapes.

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Tim Peters 2001-02-14 04:03:51 +00:00
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@ -358,10 +358,8 @@ to those used by Standard \C{}. The recognized escape sequences are:
\end{tableii}
\index{ASCII@\ASCII{}}
In strict compatibility with Standard C, up to three octal digits are
accepted, but an unlimited number of hex digits is taken to be part of
the hex escape (and then the lower 8 bits of the resulting hex number
are used in 8-bit implementations).
As in Standard C, up to three octal digits are accepted. However,
exactly two hex digits are taken in hex escapes.
Unlike Standard \index{unrecognized escape sequence}C,
all unrecognized escape sequences are left in the string unchanged,