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package org.apache.tools.ant.util;

/**
 * Contains one helper method to create a backslash u escape
 *
 * @since Ant 1.8.3
 */
public class UnicodeUtil {

    private UnicodeUtil() {
    }

    /**
     * returns the unicode representation of a char without the leading backslash
     * @param ch a character
     * @return unicode representation of a char for property files
     */
    public static StringBuffer EscapeUnicode(char ch) {
        StringBuffer unicodeBuf = new StringBuffer("u0000");
        String s = Integer.toHexString(ch);
        //replace the last 0s by the chars contained in s
        for (int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++) {
            unicodeBuf.setCharAt(unicodeBuf.length()
                                 - s.length() + i,
                                 s.charAt(i));
        }
        return unicodeBuf;
    }
}
