How to convert from HTML to UTF-8 in java

Question

Hi, I have an ASCII String, with HTML entities, like:

 à
 ¨
 ç

I need this String to be without those entities and convert them into UTF-8 chars. Is there any easy way, in java to do that?

Where:

 Clazz.method("aà","UTF-8")

returns "aà"

or something like that?

Answer 1

Take a look at org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(...). Apparently it understands all character entities defined in HTML 4.