How to replace HTML escape characters in JSON String in Android

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I am currently developing an android app with server synchronization. I have a php script sending me database information from a server encoded with JSON. Furthermore the german ä, ö, ü, ß and other characters are html escaped with &auml, &ouml, &uuml etc. When receiving the data in my android app I want to decode the escape characters (of course).

I googled about how to replace html escape characters in Android and found HTML.fromHTML(htmlString).toString() and StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml3(htmlString) from the org.apache.commons.lang library. However both just did not change the String at all.

An example of the Strings the app is receiving: {"categories":[[0,"Rollen f&uumlr vergrabene Karte"]],"roles":[],"sets":[],"set_roles":[],"teams":[]}

I also tried only to decode inner parts but it did not work either. That would then look like this: [[0,"Rollen f&uumlr vergrabene Karte"]]

How can I decode those characters without having to replaceAll every single one of them?

charles-kafels · Accepted Answer · 2015-09-26 23:51:28Z

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Html.fromHtml is supposed to do the job.

However, looking at the json you're showing, apparently the server is wrongly encoding the HTML escapes. The semicolon is not being appended, &uumlr should be &uumlr;

I've checked using the escape ú and ü and it's working.

String json = "{\"categories\":[[0,\"Rollen f&uacute;oobar t&uuml;oo vergrabene Karte\"]],\"roles\":[],\"sets\":[],\"set_roles\":[],\"teams\":[]}";

System.out.println("=======>" + Html.fromHtml(json).toString());

edited Sep 26, 2015 at 23:51

answered Sep 26, 2015 at 23:37

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findusl Over a year ago

Oh now that you mention it, where did the semicolon go... I inserted it into the database for sure. Well i will figure out on my own. Thanks :)

charles-kafels Over a year ago

No problems, sometimes when we're debugging, we forget to look at these simple details. Good luck! :D

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