Escapes are not used that way in java. Use something like this code:

byte data[] = ......; // the bytes you got from the database in Big5
encoding
String s = new String(data, "Big5"); // and now you have a java string in
unicode

Best Regards,
Paulo Soares

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Lily Chan [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, May 06, 2002 10:12
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> Subject:      [iText-questions] unicode problem
> 
> I 'm now working on a java program which converts UTF-16 (java string in 
> Chinese) and Big5 (database content) characters to unicode value in the 
> format \uXXXX. The unicode characters will then feed into iText for
> display. 
> I managed to convert
> the UTF-16 and Big5 characters to unicode value in the format XXXX.
> But when attaching "\u" at the beginning of each unicode character,
> i.e. String theUnicode ="\u" + "XXXX";
> Compilation error "Illegal unicode escape" occurs.
> 
> So still can't display the Chinese content from database to the PDF.
> 
> I would like to know besides hard-coding the unicode value "\uXXXX" in the
> 
> program, is there any other method that iText can handle non-US language, 
> like Chinese dynamically.
> 
> Please help?
> 
> Lily
> 
> 
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