Identify Unicode chars in string

[Mahesh Pinnamaneni]

Guys,

I am reading data from an CSV file and this CSV can contains special chars (like "Mich�le") aswell in some records.

I am getting all hte records in csv file in an array of Strings.
Can any one tell me how can I identify a string inside this array is of Unicode/special chars. any method in Java to identify this??
thanks & regards,
Mahesh

[Edwin Dalorzo]

Well, I believe all characters in Java are already Unicode, what you seem to be looking for is if the character belongs to a particular subset of Unicode, not just to the ASCII Subdomain.

Maybe the java.lang.Character.UnicodeBlock class may be useful to your purpose. It has method that given a char can tell you what its UnicodeBlock is, or you could simply test what is the number or the code point of the unicode char and see if it is out of the scope of the ASCII characters.

The class Character also offers some interesting methods. Take a look at it.

Character.UnicodeBlock.of('a')==Character.UnicodeBlock.BASIC_LATIN; //true
Character.UnicodeBlock.of('�')==Character.UnicodeBlock.BASIC_LATIN; //false

[ October 25, 2006: Message edited by: Edwin Dalorzo ]

[Mahesh Pinnamaneni]

Edwin,
Thanks for your reply. it worked for me..
regards,
Mahesh P