Java Char to its unicode hexadecimal string representation and vice-versa

Question

I need to generate the hexadecimal code of Java characters into strings, and parse those strings again later. I found here that parsing can be performed as following:

char c = "\u041f".toCharArray()[0];

I was hoping for something more elegant like Integer.valueOf() for parsing.

How about generating the hexadecimal unicode properly?

Answer 1

This will generate a hex string representation of the char:

char ch = 'ö';
String hex = String.format("%04x", (int) ch);

And this will convert the hex string back into a char:

int hexToInt = Integer.parseInt(hex, 16);
char intToChar = (char)hexToInt;