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Formatter crashes on unicode character in comment

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
45/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
java
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by running the formatter against the minimal Java reproduction in the issue and confirm the reported failure around the Unicode escape in the comment. Trace the formatter's handling of that input, then add coverage for the reproduction and verify formatting completes without the token error while preserving valid Java output.

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Description

Minimal reproduction case:

package com.company;

public class Bug {
  // \u000D
}

The formatter fails with the following message:

error: expected token: '\'; generated } instead
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