Question

I am trying to decode a name string which contains apostrophe. This name string is being parsed in an XML parser, so what I want to do is that the apostrophe should be displayed normally, rather than being displayed as '. I tried using the URLDecoder.decode(myString, "UTF-*"); to decode it but to no avail. From one solution posted on StackOverflow I found that we need to use the URLDecoder.decode() twice. However, even that is not working. The code that I am using is:

try {
        temp = URLDecoder.decode("Wing's", "UTF-8");
        nameOrg = URLDecoder.decode(temp, "UTF-8");
    } 
catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
        // TODO Auto-generated catch block
        e.printStackTrace();
    }

At the end it should display Wing's as Wing's, but it is displaying the same string. Any help would be great. Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

Why don’t you just decode it using Html.fromHtml(String source),

Spanned temp = Html.fromHtml("Wing's");
Log.d("decoded", temp.toString());

Output – Wing’s