title: UTF-16 error, how to solve the unrecognized escape sequence?
body: <blockquote>
    <p>This program is a translator program that takes some symbols and converts them to normal letters.
    The problem is, when I try to put some symbols like: allAlphabets.Add("[]/[]"); or:  allAlphabets.Add("//"); , i get an error about the UTF-16</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <pre><code>        static void Main(string[] args)
          {
          string input = ""; // string input
          List&lt;string&gt; allAlphabets = new List&lt;string&gt;(); // storing to a list
          input = Console.ReadLine();
          char[] word = input.ToCharArray();
          for (int i = 0; i &lt; word.Length; i++)
          {
              switch (word[i]) // switch casce
              {
             normal letters
                  case 'm':
                      allAlphabets.Add("[]\/[]"); // represents text as a sequence of utf-16 code units 
                      break;
                  case 'n':
                      allAlphabets.Add("[]\[]"); // represents text as a sequence of utf-16 code units
                  case 'v':
                      allAlphabets.Add("\/"); // represents text as a sequence of utf-16 code units
                      break;
                  case 'w':
                      allAlphabets.Add("\/\/"); // represents text as a sequence of utf-16 code units
  
               }
            }
         }
      }
  </code></pre>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Does someone know a way of encoding the unrecognized escape sequence?
    Thank you!</p>
  </blockquote>