Try the package "com.ibm.icu.text" in the icu4j downloadable here.


http://oss.software.ibm.com/icu4j.

The easiest thing is probably to view the characters in a Web browser. Write a small servlet that sets the charset HTTP header to "UTF-8" then writes out the unicode characters/string. Make sure your browsers encoding settings are also set to UTF-8 and you will be able to view the correct character.

Jorgen

Here's a function that will convert unicode literals, and escaped characters, to the char equivalents.

/**
 * Converts Java and Unicode character escape literals to
 * their character equivalent. 
 *
 * Various services may require the use of special
 * characters that cannot normally be typed at the
 * keyboard, such as a newline or carriage return. These
 * characters can be supported through the use of escape
 * sequences. These escape sequences are interpreted and
 * converted to their character equivalent.
 *
 * The following escaped characters can be specified as
 * the input variable and will be converted as described:
 *
 *  - Backspace
 * 	 - Horizontal tab 
 * 
 - Newline 
 * f - Form feed 
 * 
 - Carriage return 
 * uXXXX - The Unicode character with encoding XXXX,
 * where XXXX is four hexadecimal digits. For example,
 * u000a represents a newline character. 
 * 
 * If the input variable unitCode contains any other
 * values, the first character is returned. If unitCode is
 * null or empty, the returned character is 0 (nul - not
 * the character '0').
 */
public static char toChar(String unitCode)
{
char theChar = 0;
if(unitCode != null)
{
     unitCode = unitCode.trim();
     if(unitCode.length() > 0)
     {
         theChar = unitCode.charAt(0);    // default to return 1st character
         if(unitCode.charAt(0) == '\')
         {
             if(unitCode.length() == 1)
             {
                 theChar = '\';
             }
             else if(unitCode.length() == 2)
             {
                 switch(unitCode.charAt(1))
                 {
                 case 'r':
                     theChar = '
';
                     break;
                 case 'n':
                     theChar = '
';
                     break;
                 case 'b':
                     theChar = '';
                     break;
                 case 't':
                     theChar = '	';
                     break;
                 case 'f':
                     theChar = 'f';
                     break;
                 }
             }
             else if((unitCode.charAt(1) == 'u') && (unitCode.length() >= 6))
             {
                 theChar = (char) Integer.parseInt(unitCode.substring(2, 6), 16);
             }
         }
    }
return theChar;
}

HTH