Android Unicode to String Convert getFromCompressedUnicode(final byte[] string, final int offset, final int len)

Description

Read 8 bit data (in ISO-8859-1 codepage) into a (unicode) Java String and return.

License

Apache License

Parameter

Parameter	Description
string	byte array to read
offset	offset to read byte array
len	length to read byte array

Return

String generated String instance by reading byte array

Declaration

public static String getFromCompressedUnicode(final byte[] string,
        final int offset, final int len) 

Method Source Code

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import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;

public class Main {
    private static final String ENCODING_ISO_8859_1 = "ISO-8859-1";

    /**
     * Read 8 bit data (in ISO-8859-1 codepage) into a (unicode) Java
     * String and return.
     * (In Excel terms, read compressed 8 bit unicode as a string)
     *
     * @param string byte array to read
     * @param offset offset to read byte array
     * @param len    length to read byte array
     * @return String generated String instance by reading byte array
     */
    public static String getFromCompressedUnicode(final byte[] string,
            final int offset, final int len) {
        try {
            int len_to_use = Math.min(len, string.length - offset);
            return new String(string, offset, len_to_use,
                    ENCODING_ISO_8859_1);
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}

Related

1. unUnicode(String s)
2. unicodeToString(String hex)