Since 16 June 2014 there is a letter in unicode: \u20bd representing RUB currency sign: ₽ So, the answer to the question: HTML entity which should be used for RUB sign is ₽ Though, I suppose currently not all fonts are capable of showing it. Ability to see the sign in browser generally depends on … Read more
You can create function like below DELIMITER $$ DROP FUNCTION IF EXISTS `HTML_UnEncode`$$ CREATE FUNCTION `HTML_UnEncode`(X VARCHAR(255)) RETURNS VARCHAR(255) CHARSET latin1 DETERMINISTIC BEGIN DECLARE TextString VARCHAR(255) ; SET TextString = X ; #quotation mark IF INSTR( X , ‘"’ ) THEN SET TextString = REPLACE(TextString, ‘"’,'”‘) ; END IF ; #apostrophe IF INSTR( X , … Read more
Unless your XML has a DTD which says what means, you cannot use . The only reason this works in HTML is because the XHTML DTD defines what it means (for XHTML) or it’s just baked in to the parser (HTML). In general you should not use named character entities in XML because such … Read more
alert(‘\u20AC’); HTML Entity Character Lookup
Use HTML character references: <html> Should output <html>
The rule of thumb is: use whichever you prefer, but prefer hex. ☺ There is no difference in meaning and no difference in browser support (the last browsers that supported decimal references only died in the 1990s). As @AlexW describes, hexadecimal references are more natural than decimal, due to the way character code standards are … Read more
You want to use HttpUtility.HtmlDecode.: Converts a string that has been HTML-encoded for HTTP transmission into a decoded string.
A nice function using es6 for escaping html: const escapeHTML = str => str.replace(/[&<>'”]/g, tag => ({ ‘&’: ‘&’, ‘<‘: ‘<’, ‘>’: ‘>’, “‘”: ‘'’, ‘”‘: ‘"’ }[tag]));
This answer was last revised for Swift 5.2 and iOS 13.4 SDK. There’s no straightforward way to do that, but you can use NSAttributedString magic to make this process as painless as possible (be warned that this method will strip all HTML tags as well). Remember to initialize NSAttributedString from main thread only. It uses … Read more
I think the Apache Commons Lang library’s StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml3() and unescapeHtml4() methods are what you are looking for. See https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/StringEscapeUtils.html.