How to replace unicode characters in a string variable

[Maarten Huurne]

Hello!

I have the following question. I have a string variable with several unicode characters. An example is:

Verantwoord, hygi<U+0091>nisch, vers en lekker, <U+008F>n met liefde bereid! U krijgt de beste ingredi<U+0091>nten, liefst uit eigen tuin.

It seems that characters like ë and é are omitted.

Is there a way of solving this problem?

Thank you in advance!

[Robert Picard]

This is not a Unicode string but a string that contains Unicode escape sequences. Also, the hex numbers appear to be wrong. Here are the correct codes:

. dis ustrtohex("ëé")
\u00eb\u00e9

The simplest thing to do is to manually replace each escape sequence with the expected character. Something like:

* Example generated by -dataex-. To install: ssc install dataex
clear
input str200 s
"Verantwoord, hygi<U+0091>nisch, vers en lekker, <U+008F>n met liefde bereid! U krijgt de beste ingredi<U+0091>nten, liefst uit eigen tuin."
end

clonevar s2 = s
replace s2 = usubinstr(s2,"<U+0091>","ë",.)
replace s2 = usubinstr(s2,"<U+008F>","é",.)
list s2

[Maarten Huurne]

Thank you Robert!