Question

I am getting the Text from the Database which I have to display in my View. I am getting the Text something like this:

Surgery – Federal University of S�o Paulo, 04-18 11:18:30.092: E/AdapterSpeakers(576): Photo Therapy in Health Sciences � Nupen.

Now I need to remove the Special characters ” � ” from the above text.
I have tried HTML.from HTML along with the URLDecoder.decode(“My Text”, HTTP.UTF_8). But It dosen’t work.

Can anyone Please help me out here.

Thanks,
david brown.

Answer 1

the special character you are getting in the Text is not really a special character (�), it is something unreadable format. You can’t parse such characters…