I now have an implementation ready for the reader in the [csv] source code:

https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/commons/sandbox/csv/trunk/src/main/java/org/apache/commons/csv/UnicodeUnescapeReader.java

I think I'll also handle other escape sequences such as \n or \t.

Emmanuel Bourg


Le 12/11/2011 00:27, Emmanuel Bourg a écrit :
Hi,

It seem that unescaping unicode escape sequences (\u1234) in input
stream is a common need. [configuration] does it for
PropertiesConfiguration, and [csv] can also decode these sequences
optionally.

In the other direction, there is also a need to escape unicode
characters not supported by a given encoding when writing (see
CONFIGURATION-457).

I think these features could be implemented as a UnicodeUnescapeReader
and a UnicodeEscapeWriter that might fit into [io].

For the reader, any unicode escape sequence would be transformed into
the corresponding unicode character, or ignored if the sequence is not
valid.

For the writer, a target charset would be specified in the constructor,
and any character not supported by this charset would be turned into
\uxxxx.

What do you think?

Emmanuel Bourg

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