Re: Weird characters in java/lang/Character.java

[Etienne M. Gagnon]

Christopher Brien wrote:
> Isn't Java supposed to be capable of recognising all unicode and ascii 
> text formats? If Jikes can't handle that, then it's a problem with 
> Jikes. It would probably be best informing the people working on it 
> about this problem, because it's likely to recur. Rewriting the entire 
> source in a single text format is not a reasonable option.

And meanwhile, you have to use a proprietary program to compile the 
code.  Right?

Anyway, there's maybe less than 10 non-ASCII character in the whole 
Classpath CVS (should be verified).  Why not encode these using "unicode 
escapes", e.g.: \u1023 ?  The Java designers did this exactly to 
minimize the problems of compiling code under various platforms.

Etienne
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