Java compiler and §(alt+21)

Question

I am facing strange issue here. I am trying to use the character § (alt+21) as a delimiter. But when the source is compiled I see that in the class file this character appears as a character similar to a rectangle []. This is failing my tokenisation. Has someone see this before?

String dtr = "abcd§pqrs";   
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(templateDetails,"§");

in the compiled class file i see the below:

 String dtr = "abcd[]pqrs";   
StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(templateDetails,"[]");

How do I resolve this? TIA

Answer 1

Use the \u#### syntax to specify a character constant with a specific Unicode number.

This will allow you to specify it in pure ASCII without having to mess with file encodings and compiler behavior.