retriving escape unicode sequences from files ...

[qwertmonkey]

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
~
As you can test with this piece of code, you can simply declare the String as
a literal one or give it in the command prompt, but retrieving what seems to be
the same sequence of characters (as they print to standard out) from a file
doesn't seem to work
~
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.PrintStream;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.io.IOException;

// __
public class UniKdEnk00Test{
private static final String aNWLn = System.getProperty("line.separator");
// __
public static void main (String[] aArgs){
try{
// __
if((aArgs == null) || (aArgs.length != 1)){ throw new IOException(aNWLn +
"// __ usage:" + aNWLn + aNWLn +
" java UniKdEnk00Test \\u0066\\u0072\\u0061\\u006e\\u00e7\\u0061\\u0069\\u0073"
+ aNWLn); }
String aUniKdEnk = "\u0066\u0072\u0061\u006e\u00e7\u0061\u0069\u0073";
byte[] bAr = aUniKdEnk.getBytes("UTF-8");
ByteArrayOutputStream BOS = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
BOS.write(bAr, 0, bAr.length);
String aUTF8L = new String(BOS.toByteArray(), "UTF-8");
System.out.println(aUTF8L);
BOS.reset();
}catch(UnsupportedEncodingException UEncX){ UEncX.printStackTrace(); }
catch(IOException IOX) { IOX.printStackTrace(); }
// __
}
}
~
lbrtchx
comp.lang.java.programmer: escape unicode sequences in files ...

 

[markspace]

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.

 

[Roedy Green]

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "français"

This is a bit of a simplification.
You need to understand encoding, which kicks in when you use a Reader
or Writer. Otherwise you are dealing with raw bytes and InputStreams
and OutputStreams.

Encoding takes your 16-bit internal Unicode chars and converts it back
and forth to UTF-8 bytes.

see http://mindprod.com/applet/fileio.html for sample code
see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/encoding.html for an explanation of
encoding and the various types of encoding.

--
Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products
http://mindprod.com
The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.
~ Dr. Albert A. Bartlett (born: 1923-03-21 age: 89)

 

[glen herrmannsfeldt]

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "français"
~
\u0066\u0072\u0061\u006e\u00e7\u0061\u0069\u0073

Note the difference between \u0066 and \uu0066.

Specifically, consider the java program:

class quote {
public static void main(String args[]) {
System.out.println(\u0022hi there\u0021\u0022);
}
}

-- glen

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

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
~

Some code from my shelf:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Unescape {
private static final Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\\\u([0-9A-F]{4})");
public static String U2U(String s) {
String res = s;
Matcher m = p.matcher(res);
while(m.find()) {
res = res.replaceAll("\\" + m.group(0),
Character.toString((char)Integer.parseInt(m.group(1), 16)));
}
return res;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(U2U("\\u0041\\u0042\\u0043\\u000A\\u0031\\u0032\\u0033"));
}
}

Arne

 

[Daniel Pitts]

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
~

Some code from my shelf:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Unescape {
private static final Pattern p =
Pattern.compile("\\\\u([0-9A-F]{4})");
public static String U2U(String s) {
String res = s;
Matcher m = p.matcher(res);
while(m.find()) {
res = res.replaceAll("\\" + m.group(0),
Character.toString((char)Integer.parseInt(m.group(1), 16)));
}
return res;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(U2U("\\u0041\\u0042\\u0043\\u000A\\u0031\\u0032\\u0033"));

}
}

And if you wanted this to be effecient, you'd use appendReplacement
instead of res.replaceAll()

 

[markspace]

And if you wanted this to be effecient, you'd use appendReplacement
instead of res.replaceAll()

Free code is free. Not efficient. ;-)

 

[Lew]

Free code is free. Not efficient. ;-)

Not always. But after some reviewers suggest improvements,
it converges on it.

Valuably, the posting to Usenet opens up public review for
suggestions for improvement like this.

The pedagogical value of exposing code to tweaks offered by
commenters is beyond measure.

 

[Arne Vajhøj]

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
~

Some code from my shelf:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Unescape {
private static final Pattern p =
Pattern.compile("\\\\u([0-9A-F]{4})");
public static String U2U(String s) {
String res = s;
Matcher m = p.matcher(res);
while(m.find()) {
res = res.replaceAll("\\" + m.group(0),
Character.toString((char)Integer.parseInt(m.group(1), 16)));
}
return res;
}
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(U2U("\\u0041\\u0042\\u0043\\u000A\\u0031\\u0032\\u0033"));


}
}

And if you wanted this to be effecient, you'd use appendReplacement
instead of res.replaceAll()

I did not even knew that existed.

So:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

public class Unescape {
private static final Pattern p = Pattern.compile("\\\\u([0-9A-F]{4})");
public static String U2U(String s) {
Matcher m = p.matcher(s);
StringBuffer res = new StringBuffer();
while (m.find()) {
m.appendReplacement(res, Character.toString((char)
Integer.parseInt(m.group(1), 16)));
}
m.appendTail(res);
return res.toString();
}
public static void main(String[] args) {

System.out.println(U2U("\\u0041\\u0042\\u0043\\u000A\\u0031\\u0032\\u0033"));
}
}

Arne