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From: David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca>
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Subject: Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?
Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:17:05 -0500
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On 13/12/2012 5:00 PM, markspace wrote:
> 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.

I should probably have found a different point in the thread to hang my 
comment, since you're perfectly correct.