Reading unicode character in java

Question

I\'m a bit new to java, When I assign a unicode string to

  String str = \"\\u0142o\\u017Cy\\u0142\";
  System.out.println(str);

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Answer 1

It sounds as though your file literally contains the text z\u0142o\u017Cy\u014, i.e. has Unicode escape sequences in it.

There's probably a library for decoding these but you could do it yourself - according to the Java Language Specification an escape sequence is always of the form \uxxxx, so you could get the 4-digit hex value xxxx for the character, convert it to an integer with Integer.parseInt, convert it to a character and finally replace the whole \uxxxx sequence with the character.