Reading unicode character in java

Question

I\'m a bit new to java, When I assign a unicode string to

  String str = \"\\u0142o\\u017Cy\\u0142\";
  System.out.println(str);

  final StringBuilder stri         


        

Answer 1

So, you want to unescape unicode codepoints? There is no public API available for this. The java.util.Properties has a loadConvert() method which does exactly this, but it's private. Check the Java source for the case you'd like to reuse this. It's doing the conversion by simple parsing. I wouldn't use regex for this since this is too error prone in very specific circumstances.

Or you should probably after all be using java.util.Properties or its i18n counterpart java.util.ResourceBundle with a .properties file instead of a plain .txt file.

See also:

• Properties API tutorial
• Internationalization tutorial - ResourceBundle.