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Asked: 2026-06-07T08:01:08+00:00

Possible Duplicate: Java: How to decode HTML character entities in Java like HttpUtility.HtmlDecode? I

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Java: How to decode HTML character entities in Java like HttpUtility.HtmlDecode?

I have string data with some special characters encoded in this format &#039

in this case that encoding is a ‘ sign, a single quote.

so example the "the citizen&#039s home" should appear like "the citizen's home" but it does not.

Unfortunately this is not interpreted as such, and I need to parse all of my string for these things and convert them

first: what is that format called, this will help me find a conversion method

second: do you know of a method to fix my strings?

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  1. Editorial Team

    No need to reinvent the wheel: Apache Commons Lang’s StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4(String) is what you want.

    Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing
    the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes. Supports
    HTML 4.0 entities.

    For example, the string "<Français>" will become
    "<Français>"

    If an entity is unrecognized, it is left alone, and inserted verbatim
    into the result string. e.g. "&gt;&zzzz;x" will become ">&zzzz;x".

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