On 2011-02-08, Prescott Nasser wrote: > I'm tempted to take the source at it's word and just replace them with > the umlauts versions (via character map -thanks Aaron), and then make > some comment expressing what originally it was in the java source.
I'd still recommend using Unicode escape sequences since otherwise the source code depends on your local encoding - which will only lead to trouble later on. The Java code circumvents this somewhat by explicitly stating the file was UTF-8, but ASCII files are still a lot more portable. Stefan