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From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
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Subject: Re: Loki Paper 2: Character Sets
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:32:54 +0100 (MET)
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Tor Iver Wilhelmsen writes:

> Note that Java _also_ allows C-style character specification with
> three-digit octal character values for ISO-8859-1. Allowing checking
> for 8xXXX constants in strings would perhaps be asking too much... :-)

Yes, but the C-compatible escapes work only in character and string
constants.  The Unicode escapes work everywhere: you can write Java
wherein all the identifiers and comments are in Greek or Hindi or
Tibetan, as long as the keywords are English.

-- 
John Cowan					cowan@ccil.org
		e'osai ko sarji la lojban.