j2d - translating Java to D with the language machine - progress

[Walter Bright]

Peri Hankey wrote:
> It looks now as if the 'invalid UTF character' message is a problem with 
> the gdc/dmd front end in the version (gdc 0.17/dmd140) that I am using. 
> Is this fixed in later versions of dmd? How else would a java string
> 
>    '\uffff'
> 
> be translated as initialising a D language wchar variable? The following
> 
>    wchar x = '\uffff';
> 
> is flagged as invalid.

That's because \uFFFF is an invalid UTF sequence. You can try instead:

	wchar x = cast(wchar)0xFFFF;