Re: how do I expand a unicode string to its visual UTF8 representation?
Andrew wrote:
On 6 Aug, 17:24, Mayeul <mayeul.marg...@free.fr> wrote:
Andrew wrote:
FWIW, the reason I want to do this is I need to write strings like
this to a sybase table where the column is of type varchar. We cannot
make it univarchar (don't ask). So I need to be able to write unicode
characters without using unicode chars!
I recommand you store them encoded in UTF-7 or quoted-printable, then.
This will be more efficient and more standard than what you're trying to
do, and libraries will do it for you.
If I store the data in a varchar as this:
Copyright \u00A9 2009
Here is the phrase (in Icelandic): I can eat glass and it doesn't hurt
me
\u00C9g get eti\u00F0 gler \u00E1n \u00FEess a\u00F0 mei\u00F0a mig
then java will do the working of conversion for me automatically.
No, it will not.
The Java compiler does that for Java source code, but that
is something else.
I thought by having them in
this expanded form java can convert them just like the program above
does.
As far as I know, you were wrong when thinking that.
I think I am right. When the \uxxxx strings are in a file and I read
them in, printing gives the correct result.
It does not.
(not unless it is a properties file)
Arne
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