Where can I find an exhaustive list of escape sequences in Clojure string literals? Is this different in ClojureScript?

For example, what does this mean: "\312"?

https://clojure.org/reference/reader

\312 is not a thing

oh, in a string that should be unicode

:thinking_face:, But I thought unicode escapes are written this way: "\uXXXX", where X is #"[\da-fA-F]"

I'm honestly not sure what's going on there - you're getting some kind of encoding, but does not seem to be octal or hex

actually, that is octal you're seeing

user=> \o312
\Ê
user=> "\312"
"Ê"

The Clojure cheatsheet might actually be complete here: https://jafingerhut.github.io/cheatsheet/clojuredocs/cheatsheet-tiptip-cdocs-summary.html

In the section "Strings" then "Create"

but "\o312" doesn't work, which is the weird part?

maybe that's expected

I think that is expected, even if it doesn't make it terribly easy to remember 🙂

Strings use Java syntax, character literals are distinct to Clojure, I think?

I guess the reader page just says "standard java escape characters are supported" and the rest refers to chars

yeah

of course, the Java standard has changed since that was written :)

or I should say expanded

Is there a changelog.md for changes to the Java spec? 🙂

yes, per revision

like http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~iris/se/12/spec/fr/java-se-12-fr-spec/java-se-12-annex-3.html

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/specs/jls/se12/html/jls-3.html#jls-3.10.6 is the relevant latest java string escapes

I think that's all the same as forever though and should work in Clojure

I was think of the number format changes (like 1_000)

which has not been added to Clojure (and might even be problematic given our support for _ as a symbol)

Shouldn't be problematic, because symbols can't start with numbers?