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Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?

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From	Knute Johnson <nospam@knutejohnson.com>
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Subject	Re: Unicode escapes and String literals?
Date	Thu, 13 Dec 2012 17:08:51 -0800
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On 12/13/2012 4:43 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 12/13/2012 7:11 PM, Knute Johnson wrote:
>> On 12/13/2012 3:09 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>>> On 12/13/2012 12:31 PM, 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?
>>>
>>> I don't think there is anything built in.
>>>
>>> But it is trivial to code.
>>>
>>> This was posted just a few months back:
>
>> Well, brilliant minds think alike.   Where were you when I asked the
>> first time :-).  I don't remember a thread on this going by but that's
>> getting harder to do all the time.
>
> I am pretty sure that it was here that I posted the
> code, but with the out commented implementation and
> that someone (Daniel?) suggested the new implementation
> as an improvement.
>
> Arne
>

Well I appreciate everybody's help.  It was driving me nuts for two days.

-- 

Knute Johnson

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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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