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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 "français"
> ~
> \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.