JSON response contains characters represented as decimals

Question

My JSON response contains characters in decimal format such as

My Friend&#39;s Story

instead of

My Friend's  Story

How do I convert them properly?

Ask owner of the service to fix this, it looks like a bug in service, either using HTML encoding, or passing HTML encoded content directly. — StaxMan, Nov 02 '10 at 16:35

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

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edited May 23 '17 at 10:33

Community

answered Nov 01 '10 at 17:11

methodin

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 01 '10 at 17:16

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That's simple: You can use org.json.JSONTokener to solve your problem....

String json = "\"My Friend&#39;s Story\""; 
String value = (String)new JSONTokener(json).nextValue();

answered Nov 01 '10 at 17:16

Buhake Sindi

Why would that work? That's a HTML entity, not JSON quoting (which tokener would handle) – StaxMan Nov 02 '10 at 16:34
@StaxMan, unfortunately Google didn't include `XMLTokener` (which is available on org.json site. My thought is that they probably included some html decoding in the JSONTokener. – Buhake Sindi Nov 03 '10 at 09:15

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