I have some code that is importing data into another system with
various asian characters.  If I hard code in the program for a
variable say "\u4f55\u304c\u3042\u308b\u304b\u3002" and compile it,
the characters show on the screen of the destination application as
japanese characters exactly as I would expect them to be displayed.
If I have those same characters in an external file and process them
it shows visually in the system exactly as it is in the text file with
the slash u... instead of showing the asian characters.

Anyone know why this would be?  Why would hard coding a string in the
app be any different than reading in the same string from a text
file?  How do I resolve this?

Reading it in like:

            in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("c:\test.txt");
            String[] header = readColumns(in);
      ** Some logic goes on here as part of reading the first block
of text in the file **

Then I start reading in the rest

String[] record = readRecord(in, header);

Which calls readRecord:

        String[] record = new String[columns.length];
        for (int i=0;i<columns.length;i++)
        record[i] = in.readLine().trim();

Thanks for any input.

JR