Question

This is a basic question and yet I could not find an exact duplicate on SA:

I have this string:

String s = "surname\":\"B\\u00f6rner\"},{\"forename\""

What I’d like to get is:

String s = "surname\":\"Börner\"},{\"forename\""

Any way to do this in Java? Thx!

Answer 1

Removing the backslash manually will make Java interpret the unicode as such. If you are unable to modify the string that you receive from the API call, you can use:

s = s.replaceAll("\\\\u00f6", "\u00f6");