I need to generate the hexadecimal code of Java characters into strings, and parse those strings again later. I found here that parsing can be performed as following:
char c = "\u041f".toCharArray()[0];
I was hoping for something more elegant like Integer.valueOf() for parsing.
How about generating the hexadecimal unicode properly?
解决方案
After doing some deeper reading, the javadoc says the Character methods based on char parameters do not support all unicode values, but those taking code points (i.e., int) do.
Hence, I have been performing the following test:
int codePointCopyright = Integer.parseInt("00A9", 16);
System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(codePointCopyright));
System.out.println(Character.isValidCodePoint(codePointCopyright));
char[] toChars = Character.toChars(codePointCopyright);
System.out.println(toChars);
System.out.println();
int codePointAsian = Integer.parseInt("20011", 16);
System.out.println(Integer.toHexString(codePointAsian));
System.out.println(Character.isValidCodePoint(codePointAsian));
char[] toCharsAsian = Character.toChars(codePointAsian);
System.out.println(toCharsAsian);
and I am getting:
Therefore, I should not talk about char in my question, but rather about array of chars, since Unicode characters can be represented with more than one char. On the other side, an int covers it all.