Just some basic Methods for that (inspired from native2ascii tool):
/**
* Encode a String like äöü to \u00e4\u00f6\u00fc
*
* @param text
* @return
*/
public String native2ascii(String text) {
if (text == null)
return text;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
for (char ch : text.toCharArray()) {
sb.append(native2ascii(ch));
}
return sb.toString();
}
/**
* Encode a Character like ä to \u00e4
*
* @param ch
* @return
*/
public String native2ascii(char ch) {
if (ch > '\u007f') {
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
// write \udddd
sb.append("\\u");
StringBuffer hex = new StringBuffer(Integer.toHexString(ch));
hex.reverse();
int length = 4 - hex.length();
for (int j = 0; j < length; j++) {
hex.append('0');
}
for (int j = 0; j < 4; j++) {
sb.append(hex.charAt(3 - j));
}
return sb.toString();
} else {
return Character.toString(ch);
}
}