On Fri, 9 May 2025 10:12:09 GMT, Magnus Ihse Bursie <i...@openjdk.org> wrote:
>> As part of the UTF-8 cleaning up done in >> [JDK-8301971](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301971), I looked at >> where and how we are using unicode sequences (`\uXXXX`). In several string >> literals, I think the unicode sequences still has merit, if they improve >> clarity or readability of the code. Some instances are more gray zone. But >> the places where it does not make sense at all are in comments, as part of >> fluid text comments. There they are just disruptive and not helpful at all. >> I tried to locate all such places (but I might have missed places, I did not >> do a proper lexical analysis to find comments) and fix them. >> >> 99% of this fix is to turn poor `Peter von der Ah\u00e9` into `Peter von der >> Ahé`. 😆 >> >> I checked some random samples on when this was introduced to see if there >> were some particular commit that mistreated the encoding, but they have been >> there since the original release of the open JDK source code. >> >> There are likely many more places where direct UTF-8 encoded characters is >> preferable to unicode sequences, but this seemed like a safe and trivial >> first start. > > Magnus Ihse Bursie has updated the pull request incrementally with one > additional commit since the last revision: > > Clarify non-ASCII characters with unicode code point Now that [JDK-8301971](https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8301971) is committed, this PR is ready to be integrated. ------------- PR Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/24727#issuecomment-2866080024
