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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-03-09 12:02:24 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-03-09 12:02:24 +0200 |
| commit | 386c0bcda597914671dfeb4e1391f41e71465e91 (patch) | |
| tree | d76b6668721c5aaae0d9a49916e5355af499bbc3 /doc/testscript.cli | |
| parent | 3f8ef886b1e2b17d8ba12a74355ab7e09aec5ed6 (diff) | |
Document UTF-8 encoding for buildfiles and testscripts
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diff --git a/doc/testscript.cli b/doc/testscript.cli index 5d50472..d39893a 100644 --- a/doc/testscript.cli +++ b/doc/testscript.cli @@ -1082,6 +1082,10 @@ failures (due to unexpected output) to go undetected. \h1#lexical|Lexical Structure| +At the lexical level, testscripts are UTF-8 encoded text restricted to the +Unicode graphic characters, tabs (\c{\\t}), carriage returns (\c{\\r}), and +line feeds (\c{\\n}). + Testscript is a line-oriented language with a context-dependent lexical structure. It \"borrows\" several building blocks (variable expansion, function calls, and evaluation contexts; collectively called \i{expansions} |