how can I assign a unicode value to a char variable?

[james gong]

I dont know why the compiler give me wrong message which says:
Invalid character constant.
public class ADirtyOne
{
char a = '\u000a';
}

then How can assign a unicode value to a char variable?

[Eric Pramono]

Hi James,
I believe that's exactly how you would described a Unicode character. The fact that the compiler gives an error is because the compiler will parse the "\u000a" itu a CR (or LF, I forget.. ).. that's why it's a compiler error when it's trying to parse:
char a='<CR>';
but, if you try to define a non-reserved character
char a='\u0031';
you won't get that error..
some other Unicode that will give the compiler a headache is like \u000d, or any other operators used in Java (';','"',etc.)
- eric

[Anonymous]

Just remember that in order to avoid errors when assigning unicode values to chars, each unicode value must be exactly four hexidecimal digits (e.g. in '\u???', the question marks are replaced with the unicode value, which are digits).

[Thomas Paul]

The discussion of why \u000a doesn't work has been held severla times. Do a search for \u000a in this forum.

[Samith Nambiar]

pls follow this link ... this question has been answered very precisely here
hope that helps
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