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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).

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.)

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            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 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
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