Decomposing combined characters

[Ian Pilcher]

Does the Java API provide a way to identify and/or decompose combined
characters? For example, I need to identify characters such as U+00C2
(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX) and decompose it into U+0041
(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A) and U+0302 (COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT).

Thanks!

 

[John O'Conner]

Does the Java API provide a way to identify and/or decompose combined
characters? For example, I need to identify characters such as U+00C2
(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX) and decompose it into U+0041
(LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A) and U+0302 (COMBINING CIRCUMFLEX ACCENT).

Thanks!

Although there is no public API for this, you could try
sun.text.Normalizer...again, no API is documented. However, I can tell
you that thre is a normalize method.

Alternatively, you can use a public library available from IBM...known
as ICU4J.

Regards,
John O'Conner