retriving escape unicode sequences from files ...

Q

qwertmonkey

From: (e-mail address removed)

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
~
\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 ...

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M

markspace

To: qwertmonkey
From: markspace <-@.>

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
~
\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.

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R

Roedy Green

To: qwertmonkey
From: Roedy Green <[email protected]>

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

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)

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glen herrmannsfeldt

To: qwertmonkey
From: glen herrmannsfeldt <[email protected]>

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
~
\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

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A

Arne Vajhøj

To: qwertmonkey
From: Arne Vajhoj <[email protected]>

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
~
\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

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Daniel Pitts

To: Arne Vajhøj
From: Daniel Pitts <[email protected]>

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say "frantais"
~
\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()

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M

markspace

To: Daniel Pitts
From: markspace <-@.>

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


Free code is free. Not efficient. ;-)

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L

Lew

To: markspace
From: Lew <[email protected]>
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.

--
Lew

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A

Arne Vajhøj

To: Daniel Pitts
From: Arne Vajhoj <[email protected]>

Why is it that if you save a unicode sequence in a file, say
"frantais"
~
\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

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