Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx04.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Knute Johnson Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: Unicode escapes and String literals? Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 10:47:07 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2012 18:47:07 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: mx04.eternal-september.org; posting-host="9b3fcb0d22708969e4dc99e7aa0ef1f9"; logging-data="12218"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UBwpmJF18gqUhA35EIolZ" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:17.0) Gecko/17.0 Thunderbird/17.0 In-Reply-To: Cancel-Lock: sha1:L65WiEpUxmV9f3LBlnZt+5yTVHo= Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.java.programmer:20296 On 12/13/2012 9:51 AM, Thomas Richter wrote: > 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 I want to be able to do it to a String not to a string literal. -- Knute Johnson