Parse the text from Special characters in Android

Question

I am getting the Text from the Database which I have to display in my View. I am getting the Text something like this:

Surgery - Federal University of S�o Paulo, 04-18 11:18:30.092: E/AdapterSpeakers(576): Photo Therapy in Health Sciences � Nupen.

Now I need to remove the Special characters " � " from the above text. I have tried HTML.from HTML along with the URLDecoder.decode("My Text", HTTP.UTF_8). But It dosen't work.

Can anyone Please help me out here.

Thanks, david brown.

[Check this one](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4283351/how-to-replace-special-characters-in-a-string) — Lalit Poptani, Apr 18 '12 at 06:15

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '12 at 06:10

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the special character you are getting in the Text is not really a special character (�), it is something unreadable format. You can't parse such characters...

answered Apr 18 '12 at 06:10

Manjunath

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Please provide some solution @Manjunath – Deepika Lalra Nov 30 '12 at 11:26
Which characters you want to parse? @DeepikaLalra – Manjunath Nov 30 '12 at 11:32

Parse the text from Special characters in Android

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