Escape unicode escaping in Java

Question

I'm writing Javadoc for a class explaining proper unicode escaping:

 * String unitAbbrev = "μs"; //Best: perfectly clear even without a comment.
 * String unitAbbrev = "\u03bcs"; //Poor: the reader has no idea what this is.

Unfortunately they both render with "μs":

Is there any way to escape this unicode escape?

Double backslash ( "\\\μs" ) doesn't work:

Answer 1

Try putting the escaped Unicode literal for the backslash itself, I think:

\\

Answer 2

You can alternatively use the HTML escape \ , which still isn't great when read from source, but it's at least clearly not a unicode escape.

The only disadvantage of HTML escapes is they don't work inside {@code ...} blocks (they're rendered verbatim), so you need to use <pre> and <code> instead.

It seems like \\\\ should work as javac appears to handle it correctly, but javadoc isn't.