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Re: unicode

Date	2011-11-07 21:30 -0500
From	Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject	Re: unicode
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On 9/13/2011 10:32 PM, markspace wrote:
> On 9/13/2011 5:17 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> It allow you to use any unicode in names and strings with tools
>> that does not support those characters.
>
> I understand what it does, I just don't think it's a problem. That is,
> the \u preprocessor escape in Java is just a solution in search of a use
> case that doesn't exist, or at least is so corner-case-ish that it might
> as well not exist. While at the same time it causes rather huge
> problems, relative to the one it fixes (if any).

You asked what problem it solves.

Now you know what problem it solves.

You still do not think it is a serious problem, but that is
a different discussion.

I would tend to agree that it is not a problem today, but I doubt
that unicode support was that common when Java 1.0 was brand new.

> Again, I just thing the darn thing is pernicious and should be removed.
> At minimum, it should be removed from comments, that's just silly. (And
> I've personally been bit by the \u thing in a comment twice now. It's
> REALLY annoying when your trying to comment how you print \u for escape
> processing and you can't because "\u" isn't a valid string in a comment.)

Once put in the language, then they can never remove it without breaking
existing code.

Arne

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