12.7 Java code

This charset is available under the name Java, and should be considered experimental for now.

ASCII characters represent themselves. Character outside ASCII are coded as ‘\uNNNN’, where ‘NNNN’ stands for the four-digit hexadecimal value of the character within Unicode. The canonical representation uses lower case for the ‘u’ prefix and for the hexadecimal digits, yet Recode also accepts upper case.

There is currently no attempt to distinguish Java comments from Java strings while the recoding goes, and this may be corrected some day.