JDK-8254073, unicode escape preprocessing, and \u005C

[John Rose]

On Jun 23, 2021, at 1:59 PM, John Rose <john.r.rose at oracle.com<mailto:john.r.rose at oracle.com>> wrote:

The most legitimate uses of \uXXYY are when XX > 01.

My bad; meant to say something like:

The most legitimate uses of \uXXXY are when XXX > 007.

The least legitimate uses obfuscate visible 7-bit characters
(including newlines) that are significant to Java syntax.

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