R devel - Jan 2021 - Printing Unicode escapes with 6 digits may be problematic

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
Vastaanottaja: r-devel <r-devel at r-project.org>
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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