Is there a Java (Android) equivalent to VB6 Strconv

Question

I have the following in an old VB6 class that I need to move to a Java class in Android.

tmp = StrConv(vValue, vbUnicode, AESLOCALE)

tmp = StrConv(vData, vbFromUnicode, AESLOCALE) 

where AESLOCALE is 1033

I have had a hunt around but cannot seem to work out how to tackle this. Thanks

Answer 1

It looks like you just need to convert back and forth between English (Locale 1033 or ISO_8859_1) and unicode (UTF_16).

First, make sure you import the charsets:

    import static java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets.*;

For the top line in your question you can use this to encode a charset in UTF-16:

    //Convert to unicode/UTF_16:
    byte[] engilshBytes = myString.getBytes(ISO_8859_1); 
    String unicodeValue = new String(engilshBytes, UTF_16); 

For the bottom line in your question you can use this to encode unicode in ISO_8859_1:

    //Convert to english/ISO_8859_1:
    byte[] unicodeBytes = myString.getBytes(UTF_16); 
    String englishValue = new String(unicodeBytes, ISO_8859_1); 

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Edit:

Link to the Android page on character sets (Works since Android 4.4):

https://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/StandardCharsets

Link to the Java page on character sets (NIO works since Java 7):

https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/nio/charset/Charset.html