Regex Point Lambdafication Patch

[Ben Evans]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Gibbons
<jonathan.gibbons at oracle.com> wrote:
> On 03/12/2013 02:33 PM, Ben Evans wrote:
>> By the way, I've noticed that something in the webrev process appears
>> to be mangling the Unicode chars in some of my tests. Is this OK? Is
>> it known behaviour?
>
> JDK source code is supposed to be ASCII.

This is test code, rather than source, but in general - why this restriction?

Given that javac should accept UTF-8 as source, why shouldn't test
cases be written with UTF-8 identifiers or literals?

I'm happy to modify tests accordingly if necessary, but this does seem
a bit archaic...

Ben