Ah, I think you're right, non \u escapes would signal a failure.   

Thanks Ben.



Sean



On Mar 2, 2011, at 4:50 PM, Ben Stabile wrote:



> Encoding/decoding of strings was not working correctly with escape  

> characters for me. I had to change the decoding switch case somewhat  

> because it was falling into the "unicode sequence" trap for no  

> apparent reason.

>

> The following change was necessary to make this work (but see the  

> warning below before making this change without checking your own  

> sources):

>

> [Code.java, line 479]

>

>                 else if (c=='\\')  // escape

>                     {

>                     x++;

>                     if ( x >= len )

>                         { d.type = DecodeReturn.T_ERROR; d.s =  

> "Unterminated String"; return; }

>                     if (dat.charAt(x)!='u' && inUnicode)

>                         { d.type = DecodeReturn.T_ERROR; d.s =  

> "Escape character in Unicode sequence"; return; }

>                     switch (dat.charAt(x))

> ...

>

> CAVEAT EMPTOR: I am working with significantly altered sources at  

> the moment, so this may not show up for others the way it has for  

> me. I am referencing the original source code linenumber above. If  

> you don't use the "Code" class for this kind of thing, you might  

> want to just ignore this. ;-)

>

> Regards,

> Ben S.

>

>

>