[PATCH] remove hardcoded selection for HEX ESCAPES(???)

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 11:26:09AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> 
>   (if this patch is appropriate, feel free to apply it.  it removes
> the hardcoded setting of the macro WANT_HEX_ESCAPES plus the
> subsequent conditionals based on it.  it's not clear whether it makes
> much sense to have that kind of conditional proprocessing if it's
> not a menu configuration selection.  it's also not clear why you
> *wouldn't* want hex escapes but if there's a good reason to keep
> supporting that, then feel free to toss this patch.)

What programs use this file? I expect these hex escapes are a GNU
extension that's incompatible with SUSv3, in which case it would be
nice to be able to disable them along with other GNU extensions.

Rich