JSP. How to get copyrght symbol from bean getter

Question

I have a bean which has String property, which stores copyright symbol

private String copyright = "my company &#169; 2016 All rights reserved";

public String getCopyright() {
     return this.copyright;
}

The problem, that jspx page don't display copyrigh symbol. It jus displays text like this:

my company &#169; 2016 All rights reserved

How can I return text which contains copyright symbol in jsp?

This is how I get that bean property in jsp page

In this case copyright symbol is not displayed

<TD align="center" style=" font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">
     #{copyrightBean.copyrights}  
</TD>

Now copyright symbol is dispalyed, but it didn;t come from bean:

<TD align="center" style=" font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; ">
     &#169;
</TD>

Possible duplicate of [Not able to display special characters properly in a JSP page](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5598565/not-able-to-display-special-characters-properly-in-a-jsp-page) — Tom C, Mar 01 '16 at 13:42

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 01 '16 at 13:45

The & in the string is escaped when printed in the JSP page (the HTML will contain a string "my company &#169; 2016...").

Therefore the string should not escape the copyright symbol:

private String copyright = "my company © 2016 All rights reserved";

Ruan Mendes · Answer 2 · 2016-03-01T14:21:13.023

0

You must be HTML escaping your call to the bean. If you view the source of your HTML, you'll see

 &amp;#169;

There are two solutions:

Don't auto-escape your template content, the exact way will depend on the templating engine you are using

edited Mar 01 '16 at 14:21

answered Mar 01 '16 at 13:42

Ruan Mendes

2 Answers2