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Romi
Romi

Reputation: 4921

How to render special characters in html

Am am reading html text from a resourse file as 

InputStream fstream = this.getClass().getClassLoader()
        .getResourceAsStream(filename);
myString = IOUtils.toString(fstream, "UTF-8");

But if html contains special chars as

McDonald's

it convert it to McDonald?s, i can resolve it if i replace ' with apos but is there any other way to do it. is it some encoding isseu?? as its very much tedious to replace every single char since my file contains these special chars in thousands.

Thanks,

Upvotes: 3

Views: 2130

Answers (2)

user1249679
user1249679

Reputation:

use this meta tag intead of utf8 if your site is in english language for multiple languages you have to use utf8 

 <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">

Upvotes: 1

Paul Vargas
Paul Vargas

Reputation: 42010

Try a different encoding. Possibly be Cp1252 or ISO-8859-1. You can find more character encodings in http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets (use the preferred MIME name) or take at look in Character encoding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Upvotes: 1

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