Htmlcharacters in Textlabel

Question

i have a UITableview, in the tableview i'm grabbing a JSON feed. But sometimes it's displaying htmlcharacters like “ instead of “ does anyone know how i can convert this in xcode?

Can i set a encoding for my textlabel?

[[cell textLabel]  setText:[item objectForKey:@"title" ]];

Answer 1

When I'm fetching strings from a web server and if they're destined for any User Interface, I usually de-louse (errr, de-percent-escape them) via this "NSString" method:

stringByReplacingPercentEscapesUsingEncoding (documentation linked for you).

This gets rid of the URL encoded pieces of strings.

Now, as to the HTML characters like "&#8220", that requires an additional NSString category to do some work.

And other people have already written this category for you. Take a look at the various answers here and one of them should work well.