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I would like to unescape a XML character entity reference ü to ü in Java.
How can I achieve this?

BalusC
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user987144
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    Your question has completely nothing to do with character encoding. The `ü` is just a XML entity, which is an ASCII-safe escaped form of an Unicode codepoint. I removed the encoding/decoding tags from the question as they would only generate incorrect answers from people who know nothing about the matters. – BalusC Jun 19 '13 at 02:00

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Probably you need an additional library to convert that codes to Unicode chars, like Apache Commons Lang. This library has the class StringEscapeUtils.

import org.apache.commons.lang3.StringEscapeUtils;

public class Unescape {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        String str = StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4("ü");
        System.out.println(str);
    }
}

Output:

ü
Paul Vargas
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You can try encoding it as below: 

try
    {
        String str = "üxy";
        final String s = new String(str, "UTF-8");
    }
    catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e)
    {
        Log.e("utf8", "conversion", e);
    }
umangm
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  • http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13824859/why-is-conversion-from-utf-8-to-iso-8859-1-not-the-same-in-windows-and-linux – umangm Jun 17 '13 at 17:19
  • This answer makes no sense. The `ü` is a [hexadecimal XML entity](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references), not some [Mojibake](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mojibake) or whatever you incorrectly thought it was (your answer does basically not solve anything related to character encoding). – BalusC Jun 19 '13 at 01:58
  • Did you create another account to upvote yourself or so? I can't imagine why someone would upvote this nonsensicial answer. – BalusC Jun 19 '13 at 10:35