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Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?

Newsgroups	comp.lang.java.programmer
Date	2012-12-13 17:11 -0800
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Subject	Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?
From	Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com>

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markspace wrote:
> David Lamb wrote:
>> Cute. But presupposing that the OP isn't the idiot some people seem to
> > have assumed, I suspect he meant something more like
>>
>>    String line = someBufferedFile.readline();
>>    ... change all \u escapes into unicode in "line" ... [1]

That was not obvious to me, hence my question as to what he did mean.

> Maybe.  But your code above is obvious, imo.  Either Knute had a brain 
> fart and forgot about \\ to escape a slash, or he ran into some other 
> problem.
> 
> My point was that there's a very simple pre-compiler for Java.  It 
> translates all \u-escapes into characters before the compiler proper 
> sees it.  There's no difference to the Java compiler between "fed" and 
> "\u0066\u0065\u0064".  It literally can't tell the difference.

That was also the point of my SSCCE.

> That's an important distinction.

-- 
Lew

Thread

Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 09:31 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-12-13 18:51 +0100
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 10:47 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 11:41 -0800
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-12-14 13:32 +0000
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-14 15:16 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 12:58 -0800
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 16:21 -0500
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 14:00 -0800
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 17:17 -0500
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 17:19 -0500
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 17:11 -0800
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:38 -0500
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 11:46 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 11:49 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 14:55 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 15:32 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 18:09 -0500
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 15:52 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:40 -0500
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 16:11 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:43 -0500
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 17:08 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-14 02:28 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-14 21:05 -0500
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-17 02:42 -0800

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