Message An apparent UCN escape sequence was encountered, but UCNs are not supported in this language mode. The backslash will be ignored. Description Universal Character Name (UCN) escape sequences were added to C in the C99 standard. The language mode of the current compilation does not process UCNs, so they will be treated as unrecognized escape sequences, which ignore the backslash. User Action Compile in a mode that processes UCNs (C99, or the default "relaxed" mode), or remove the backslash. Relying on apparent escape sequences to be unrecognized is not good practice.