How do I convert special characters using java?

Question

I have strings like:

Avery® Laser & Inkjet Self-Adhesive

I need to convert them to

Avery Laser & Inkjet Self-Adhesive.

I.e. remove special characters and convert html special chars to regular ones.

Answer 1

You can use the StringEscapeUtils class from Apache Commons Lang project.

Answer 2

Maybe you can use something like:

yourTxt = yourTxt.replaceAll("&", "&");

in some project I did something like:

public String replaceAcutesHTML(String str) {

str = str.replaceAll("á","á");
str = str.replaceAll("é","é");
str = str.replaceAll("í","í");
str = str.replaceAll("ó","ó");
str = str.replaceAll("ú","ú");
str = str.replaceAll("Á","Á");
str = str.replaceAll("É","É");
str = str.replaceAll("Í","Í");
str = str.replaceAll("Ó","Ó");
str = str.replaceAll("Ú","Ú");
str = str.replaceAll("ñ","ñ");
str = str.replaceAll("Ñ","Ñ");

return str;

}