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Re: unicode

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From	Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid>
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Subject	Re: unicode
Date	Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:49:06 -0700
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On Tue, 13 Sep 2011 19:32:46 -0700, markspace <-@.> wrote, quoted or
indirectly quoted someone who said :

>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.)

I know I have been bit by this too, but I forget the details.  
Could you give an example of a invalid \u comment and just when the
IDE/compiler complains or missteps?  I would like to enshrine it at
http://mindprod.com/jgloss/gotchas.html#BSU


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  Re: unicode Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-12 14:08 -0700
    Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-12 17:31 -0400
      Re: unicode markspace <-@.> - 2011-09-12 16:33 -0700
        Re: unicode Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 17:46 -0700
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          Re: unicode Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-12 22:05 -0700
            Re: unicode Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-12 22:10 -0700
            Re: unicode Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2011-09-13 07:18 +0000
        Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-12 20:57 -0400
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            Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-13 20:17 -0400
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                Re: unicode Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-14 11:49 -0700
          Re: unicode Paul Cager <paul.cager@googlemail.com> - 2011-09-13 04:05 -0700
        Re: unicode Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2011-09-12 22:02 -0700
          Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-13 20:30 -0400
  Re: unicode Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2011-09-12 17:29 -0400
    Re: unicode Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2011-09-12 15:48 -0700

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