Converting \u00e0 to appropriate character.
807569Jul 18 2006 — edited Aug 1 2006Dear Java folks,
I'm trying to import some Java source code produced on one system into another.
I have a zip file which contains some .java source files in which non-ascii characters have been converted to their equivalent Unicode string, for example:
String s1 = "\u00e0" ;
The original code looked like this:
String s1 = "�" ; <- that's an 'a' with an accent over it.
I'm reading the source code from a zip file using an InputStreamReader.
Is there any way to convert the "\u00e0" and other Unicode characters back into the correct characters as I read the zip entry?
fyi I'm running on WIndows XP and the original code is part of a Lotus Notes database. In Notes the characters look fine but when the code is 'exported' they get converted to \u00e0 by NOtes and there's not much I can do about that. Both the export and the import are running on the same computer.
TIA, Keith