what is that encoding ( \u041e\u0434\u0440 ) and how to I get it back to normal?

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Say i have a string like that

"title": "\u041e\u0434\u0440\u0438\u043d\u044f-\u0423\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430 ...

What would be the best way of getting it back to normal?

I tried

byte[] b = stringBuilder.toString().getBytes();
String jstring = new String(b,"UTF-8");

yet no luck, it stays the same.

Thanks.

score 11 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

Those are Unicode escape sequences. The quickest way to decode them (non-programmatically) is simply by pasting them into your browser's console, in quotes:

"\u041e\u0434\u0440\u0438\u043d\u044f-\u0423\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430"
> "Одриня-Урбова"

There are a few answers here that show how to decode them in Java, for example:

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:06

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That's not UTF-8 encoded, that's just a normal string. In Java, the \uXXXX is a Unicode character escape that represents the actual Unicode character at the given code point.

So, your string is normal, it's not encoded.

answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:06

Greg Hewgill

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ok, but how do I turn it into a readable format in androud/java? :) – Roger Travis Mar 12 '12 at 18:13
Just use it like you would any other string. Is something specific not working for you? – Greg Hewgill Mar 12 '12 at 18:16

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:09

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Did't try it, but here you may find a helpful unicode escape string parser.

answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:09

Călin Darie

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score 1 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:14

The unicode characters will appear like áéíóú or something like that when you show them on the screen. I phased a similar situation parsing data with MySQL db using php so on the php file I encode the strange characters tu UTF-8, the a string like the one you have appeared, then when I presented the data on a list view the characters appeared as they should.

score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:20

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It is already normal:

The following code

String str="\u041e\u0434\u0440\u0438\u043d\u044f-\u0423\u0440\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430";    
System.out.println(str);

will print out: Одриня-Урбова

See the JLS-reference: Unicode-Escapes

answered Mar 12 '12 at 18:20

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