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Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?

From Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?
Date 2012-12-13 18:51 +0100
Organization University of Stuttgart, FRG
Message-ID <kad4io$see$1@news2.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de> (permalink)
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On 13.12.2012 18:31, Knute Johnson wrote:
> I just had a great revelation as I was putting together my SSCCE for the
> question I was going to ask. So it has changed my question. How do I do
> the conversion of unicode escape sequences to a String that are done by
> string literals?
>
> String s = "\u0066\u0065\u0064";
>
> becomes "fed" but if you create a String with \u0066\u0065\u0064 in it
> without using the literal it stays \u0066\u0065\u0064. Is there a built
> in mechanism in Java for doing that translation to a String?

Yes. It's called "compiler". The same part of the compiler that 
translates a "\t" in a string literal to the TAB control character also 
replaces the unicode sequences in the string literal to the 
corresponding unicode encoding.

Greetings,
	Thomas

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Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 09:31 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Thomas Richter <thor@math.tu-berlin.de> - 2012-12-13 18:51 +0100
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 10:47 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 11:41 -0800
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? rossum <rossum48@coldmail.com> - 2012-12-14 13:32 +0000
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-14 15:16 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 12:58 -0800
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 16:21 -0500
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 14:00 -0800
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 17:17 -0500
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? David Lamb <dalamb@cs.queensu.ca> - 2012-12-13 17:19 -0500
            Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Lew <lewbloch@gmail.com> - 2012-12-13 17:11 -0800
          Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:38 -0500
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 11:46 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 11:49 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 14:55 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? markspace <-@.> - 2012-12-13 15:32 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 18:09 -0500
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Daniel Pitts <newsgroup.nospam@virtualinfinity.net> - 2012-12-13 15:52 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:40 -0500
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 16:11 -0800
      Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-13 19:43 -0500
        Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com> - 2012-12-13 17:08 -0800
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-14 02:28 -0800
    Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2012-12-14 21:05 -0500
  Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2012-12-17 02:42 -0800

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