Question:

Our XML feed gives us encoded UTF-8 characters inside ISO-8859-1 a file. This is being fed into the database. So the text is ISO-8859-1 encoded and contains following stuff:

金融市场

Is there a way to convert that into a normal Java string? Similar to:

String str = fromHtmlUtf8("金融市场");

Where resulting str will contain normal UTF8 chars. Chinese in this case, but can be quite mixed.

Thanks.

You can use the StringEscapeUtils from Apache Commons: <a href="http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html" rel="nofollow">http://commons.apache.org/lang/api-2.6/org/apache/commons/lang/StringEscapeUtils.html</a>

next time search before: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2825985/how-to-convert-from-html-to-utf-8-in-java/2826064#2826064" rel="nofollow">How to convert from HTML to UTF-8 in java</a>

If you need small lib for this, you can use HTMLEntitles

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