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Asked: 2026-06-17T05:17:20+00:00

I have tried a couple different things including urldecode() as well as a few

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I have tried a couple different things including urldecode() as well as a few different answers from this question: Decode Numeric HTML Entities in ColdFusion?

For example I have this french text:

 Après avoir terminé

I need to convert to the actual french characters, including the space at the beginning to this:

 Après avoir terminé

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use the Apache Commons library to do this:

    <cfset input = "&nbsp;Apr&egrave;s avoir termin&eacute;" />
<cfset utils = createObject("java", "org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils") />
<cfdump var=#utils.unescapeHTML(input)# />

    (p.s. This was hidden in a comment to my answer on the question you linked to, though I’ve since edited into the main answer to increase visibility.)

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