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From: "markspace" <markspace@1:261/38.remove-yy0-this>
Subject: Re: retriving escape unicode sequences from files ...
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  To: qwertmonkey
From: markspace <-@.>

On 8/2/2012 8:52 PM, qwertmonkey@syberianoutpost.ru wrote:
>   Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
> ~
> \u0066\u0072\u0061\u006e\u00e7\u0061\u0069\u0073
> ~
>   and then retrieve as a String you can't then convert it back to a UTF-8
String


Because it isn't French, it's just the ASCII characters \, u, 0, 0, 6, 6 etc.  
This is a totally different concept from the idea of escape sequences that the 
compiler interprets for you.

If you want to read French out of a file, put *French* in the file, not ASCII.  
It can't work any other way.

If you want to interpret ASCII as escape sequences, you'll have to write the 
interpreter.  The Java Properties object reads escape sequences, but I don't 
think you can separate just the escape parser out.

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