Bug 6677 - \u in comment gives Invalid unicode error
Summary: \u in comment gives Invalid unicode error
Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: JDT
Classification: Eclipse Project
Component: Core (show other bugs)
Version: 1.0   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows 2000
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: 2.0 M1   Edit
Assignee: Philipe Mulet CLA
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Reported: 2001-12-07 11:44 EST by Neil Swingler CLA
Modified: 2004-08-29 02:05 EDT (History)
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Description Neil Swingler CLA 2001-12-07 11:44:59 EST 
\u in a comment block seems to be treated as if it was in a string,
e.g.
\util produces the error "Invalid unicode"
whereas \u0000 is OK
Comment 1 Philipe Mulet CLA 2001-12-07 18:45:34 EST 
Unicodes can occur anywhere in source (identifiers, strings, comments, ...). 
The compiler complaints is legite as per the Java language specification, any 
Java compiler must reject such code.
Comment 2 Neil Swingler CLA 2001-12-10 05:00:43 EST 
So version control tags that are expanded to a
fully qualified pathname cannot be used on Windows systems.
Comment 3 Ralf Hauser CLA 2004-08-29 02:05:01 EDT 
I second Neil to reopen this because currently, one cannot even copy a windows
path into a comment???

see also: Bug 10753