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Hello
i thought i am well prepared for the exam, but when i met that example, i undrestood i am not yet!
public class Test002 extends Super
{
public static void main(String args[])
{
char c1 = '\u00AA';
char c2 = '\u00DD';
char c3 = '\u000D';
char c4 = '\u000A';
}
}

can somone tell me why c1 and c2 are valid values wheras c3 and c4 are not!
Thank you in advance!
 
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Originally posted by fethi makhlouf:

char c2 = '\u00DD';
char c3 = '\u000D';
char c4 = '\u000A';
}
}

can somone tell me why c1 and c2 are valid values wheras c3 and c4 are not!


Firstly,
/u000d represents carriage return
/u000a represents new line
Now the first thing that the compiler does is convert the unicode into the respective characters. This happens, I guess, even before the actual compilation process starts.
So the c3 and c4 lines when passed to the compiler would look like this

So ur code above is equivalent to the one below:

and hence the compile error.
 
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