Re: Unescaping Unicode code points in a Java string

Greg wrote:
My Java program reads in (from an external source) text that contains
the same sort of unicode character escape sequences as java source
code. For example, one such string might be:

"En Espa\u00f1ol"

Naturally, I would like to convert the five characters subsequence,
"\u00f1", into the single character codepoint (hex 00F1) that those
characters actually represent:

"En Español"

I've been browsing the J2SE 1.5 docs hoping to find a convenient method
to perform this kind of conversion, but so far have not found one. Does
anyone have any suggestions?

Long time ago I searched the Java API and sources for a method doing that kind of String decoding, but to no avail. The only thing I found was method
private String loadConvert(String)
in class java.util.Properties. But because it is private, it is not reusable outside Properties.

(You find the source in src.zip of JDK installation directory)

--
Thomas
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