> No. I think you are confused about how UTF8 works. > > The hexadecimal shown above is a 6-character string as follows: > > "\u00c2\u00ac\u00c2\u00ac\u00c2\u00ac" > > You are wanting this three-character string: > > "\uc2ac\uc283\uc283" > > The hex encoding of the string you want would be: > > "EC8AACEC8AACEC8AAC"
I suspect that someone confused Code Points (=characters, letters) with encoded bytes in memory, leading to double encode. The canonical recommended read for that topic would be http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Unicode.html S.M. -- Dipl.-Phys. (Univ) Stefan Meinlschmidt, Senior Software Engineer Am Wolfsmantel 46, 91058 Tennenlohe, Germany Tel: +49-8458-3332-531 stefan.meinlschmidt at esolutions.de Fax: +49-8458-3332-20-531
