posted 22 years ago
This was taken for the JLS 3.10.4 section
Because Unicode escapes are processed very early, it is not correct to write '\u000a' for a character literal whose value is linefeed (LF); the Unicode escape \u000a is transformed into an actual linefeed in translation step 1 (�3.3) and the linefeed becomes a LineTerminator in step 2 (�3.4), and so the character literal is not valid in step 3. Instead, one should use the escape sequence '\n' (�3.10.6). Similarly, it is not correct to write '\u000d' for a character literal whose value is carriage return (CR). Instead, use '\r'.
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