9.4.1 Unicode escape sequences

9.4.1 Unicode escape sequences
A Unicode escape sequence represents a Unicode character. Unicode escape
sequences are processed in
identifiers (§9.4.2), regular string literals (§9.4.4.5), and character
literals (§9.4.4.4). A Unicode character escape
is not processed in any other location (for example, to form an operator,
punctuator, or keyword).
unicode-escape-sequence::
/u hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit
/U hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit hex-digit
hex-digit
A Unicode escape sequence represents the single Unicode character formed by
the hexadecimal number
following the ./u. or ./U. characters. Since C# uses a 16-bit encoding of
Unicode characters in characters and
string values, a Unicode code point in the range U+10000 to U+10FFFF is
represented using two Unicode
surrogate code units. Unicode code points above 0x10FFFF are invalid and
are not supported.
Multiple translations are not performed. For instance, the string literal
./u005Cu005C. is equivalent to
./u005C. rather than ./.. [Note: The Unicode value /u005C is the character
./.. end note]
[Example: The example
Chapter 9 Lexical structure
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class Class1
{
static void Test(bool /u0066) {
char c = ’/u0066’;
if (/u0066)
System.Console.WriteLine(c.ToString());
}
}
shows several uses of /u0066, which is the escape sequence for the letter
.f.. The program is equivalent to
class Class1
{
static void Test(bool f) {
char c = ’f’;
if (f)
System.Console.WriteLine(c.ToString());
}
}
end example]