Better error message for unknown start of token

The span was fixed at some point to point to the correct character, but
the error message is still bad. Update it to emit the actual character
in question (potentially escaped).

Fixes #3747.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer.rs b/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer.rs
index d0041021f7c..c7b247f2dd2 100644
--- a/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer.rs
+++ b/src/libsyntax/parse/lexer.rs
@@ -782,7 +782,9 @@ fn next_token_inner(rdr: @mut StringReader) -> token::Token {
       c => {
           // So the error span points to the unrecognized character
           rdr.peek_span = codemap::mk_sp(rdr.last_pos, rdr.pos);
-          rdr.fatal(fmt!("unknown start of token: %d", c as int));
+          let mut cs = ~"";
+          char::escape_default(c, |c| cs.push_char(c));
+          rdr.fatal(fmt!("unknown start of token: %s", cs));
       }
     }
 }