Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: unicode Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:49:06 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <6c991195-ab57-417c-92e0-6d5ee1c451dc@dq7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> <4e6e7a2a$0$309$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e6eaa8a$0$305$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <4e6ff2a9$0$313$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8029 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 -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)