Replace special characters with their respective encoding from the list

Asked Jun 21 '17 at 17:45

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I need to replace special characters with their respective encoding from the list, below are the sample list of characters and their encoding

  '&Aacute;' => 'Á', 
  '&aacute;' => 'á', 
  '&Acirc;' => 'Â', 
  '&acirc;' => 'â', 
  '&acute;' => '´', 
  '&AElig;' => 'Æ', 
  '&aelig;' => 'æ', 
  '&Agrave;' => 'À', 
  '&agrave;' => 'à', 
  '&alefsym;' => 'ℵ', 
  '&Alpha;' => 'Α', 
  '&alpha;' => 'α', 
  '&amp;' => '&', 
  '&and;' => '∧',

Source String = "this is some sample à for character encoding æ"

After replace character in string should look like below:

output= "this is some sample &aacute for character encoding æ"

asked Jun 21 '17 at 17:45

pankaj desai

[Duplicate ?](https://stackoverflow.com/a/10978284/6730571) – Hugues M. Jun 21 '17 at 17:50
@Reimeus i don't this is duplicate? – Youcef LAIDANI Jun 21 '17 at 17:53
i'm voting to reopen this question as not duplicate – Youcef LAIDANI Jun 21 '17 at 17:55
@YCF_L yes it is. did you see the answer about `StringEscapeUtils.escapeHtml`? – Reimeus Jun 21 '17 at 17:55
@Reimeus how it will be duplicate, can you share the link for the solution ? – pankaj desai Jun 21 '17 at 17:55
@Reimeus this is not about Html, it is about some special characters – Youcef LAIDANI Jun 21 '17 at 17:56
@pankajdesai study the javadoc from the best answer, it does exactly what you want – Reimeus Jun 21 '17 at 17:58
@Reimeus there will be some custom codes as well in the list, it is not limited to html code. – pankaj desai Jun 21 '17 at 18:00
@Reimeus Thanks will look into StringEscapeUtils as well but I hope you able to understand the problem statement – pankaj desai Jun 21 '17 at 18:02
"HTML" does not appear in the question, but the "encoding" that is requested *is* [HTML entities](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Glossary/Entity), and the question is the same as "how to convert those characters to HTML entities", and the duplicate answers that already.-- But maybe the answer deserves an update, I'll see what I can do about that. – Hugues M. Jun 22 '17 at 08:09

Replace special characters with their respective encoding from the list

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