Question

I have a string with value:

'Reserva de Usos M\xfaltiples de la Cuenca del Lago de Atitl\xe1n-RUMCLA (Atitl\xe1n Watershed Multiple Use Reserve)'

How do I get the \xfa and \xe1 to show up as characters?

Thanks
Eric

Answer 1

This is what I did to fix the issue:

protected String FixHexValuesInString(String str) {

    Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("\\\\x([0-9a-f]{2})").matcher(str);    
    StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
    while (matcher.find()) {
        int codepoint = Integer.valueOf(matcher.group(1), 16);
        matcher.appendReplacement(sb, String.valueOf((char) codepoint));
    }
    return matcher.appendTail(sb).toString();
}