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On 12/13/2012 1:21 PM, 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]


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's an important distinction.