Home/ Questions/Q 6661419
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-05-26T02:16:39+00:00

I have a string coming in, which I need to store in the db.

  • 0

I have a string coming in, which I need to store in the db. Now the string does contain the copyright symbol ©. I want to convert this to &copy ; so that it can be displayed properly on each and every browser and with every encoding standard.

This is where I’ve reached up until now

– tried replace(), which definitely wouldn’t have worked anyways for the copyright character.
– tried turning tables by setting different encoding standards to view data in the browser, it gets displayed as a �
– converted the string to a byte array with UTF-8 charset and figured out that -62 is that ASCII value for the copyright character. Now the problem is that the string coming in could be quite big and splitting it up to a byte array and then forming a string back would be very expensive.

Any help is appreciated.

Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    HTML-Escaping

    This may not solve your encoding issues but answering your question from title.

    To HTML-escape a String I recommend StringEscapeUtils from Apache Commons Lang

    StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml(String)

    Encoding

    To address your encoding problems..when you want to use UTF-8 then ensure that at least one of the following things is set. Additionally when setting more than one of them then all of them have to be consistent.

    Content-Type in HTTP-Header

    Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

    HTML

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">

    HTML 5

    <meta charset="utf-8">

    XHTML

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

    Also ensure that the content you’re serving is really UTF-8 encoded. I recommend to use UTF-8 encoding without BOM.

    • 0