UnicodeInCode
Avoid using non-ASCII Unicode characters outside of comments and literals, as they can be confusing.

Severity
ERROR

The problem

Using non-ASCII Unicode characters in code can be confusing, and potentially unsafe.

For example, homoglyphs can result in a different method to the one that was expected being invoked.

import static com.google.common.base.Objects.equal;

public void isAuthenticated(String password) {
  // The "l" here is not what it seems.
  return equaâ…¼(password, this.password());
}

// ...

private boolean equaâ…¼(String a, String b) {
  return true;
}

Suppression

Suppress false positives by adding the suppression annotation @SuppressWarnings("UnicodeInCode") to the enclosing element.