Load HTML Content to android RichEditText

Question

I'm using cwac-richedit librar in my project
user write some text in it and app will save user input as HTML content

my problem is when i want to show saved content to user, it displays as HTML content. i tried this :

Spanned description = Html.fromHtml(stepContent);
rtxtStepDescription.setText(description);

and it looks like this

EDITED: this is what user writes in edittext:
enter image description here
app saves this content with Html.toHtml(rtxtStepDescription.getEditableText())

after that, next time i open my app this is what app loads:

<p dir="rtl"><u>&#1587;&#1604;&#1575;&#1605;</u><br>
&#1605;&#1578;&#1606; <i>&#1570;&#1586;&#1605;&#1575;&#1740;&#1588;&#1740;</i> &#1576;&#1585;&#1575;&#1740; <b>&#1587;&#1608;&#1575;&#1604;</b></p>

Hey, post the value of `stepContent` so that I could try it here if I could get it working — Darpan, Oct 09 '14 at 10:42
"this is what the app loads" -- are you saying that is what you are passing into `Html.fromHtml()`? Or are you saying that is what you are getting out of `Html.fromHtml()`? — CommonsWare, Oct 09 '14 at 11:33
This is what is passed to `Html.fromHtml ()` and what getting out of it! And I don't know why — Sepehr Behroozi, Oct 09 '14 at 11:36
This answer can help you? see.. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/599634/convert-html-character-back-to-text-using-java-standard-library , check Zach Scrivena's answer there — Darpan, Oct 09 '14 at 12:33

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

Figured it out. These are HTML entities, See one convertor online here.

use Apache StringEscapeUtils from Apache commons lang:

import org.apache.commons.lang.StringEscapeUtils;
...
String withCharacters = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml(yourString);

JavaDoc says:

Unescapes a string containing entity escapes to a string containing the actual Unicode characters corresponding to the escapes. Supports HTML 4.0 entities.

For example, the string "<Français>" will become "<Français>"

If an entity is unrecognized, it is left alone, and inserted verbatim into the result string. e.g. ">&zzzz;x" will become ">&zzzz;x".

as described in answer here

it worked because, because of the reasons I mentioned in first two lines :P — Darpan, Oct 09 '14 at 19:11

Load HTML Content to android RichEditText

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