Possible Duplicate:
How to do URL decoding in Java?
I have string "Fran%c3%a7ais". How can I convert it to correct "Français" ?
Asked
Active
Viewed 3,513 times
2 Answers
3
Try URLDecoder:
URLDecoder.decode(String s)
According to the Docs the function is deprecated, so you'll need to use this one:
public static String decode(String s, String enc) throws UnsupportedEncodingException
Example:
String decoded = URLDecoder.decode("Fran%c3%a7ais", "UTF-8");
-
This method is deprecated. You can use `URLDecoder.decode("Fran%c3%a7ais", "UTF-8");` – assylias Dec 17 '12 at 15:30
-
1@assylias I edited that and mentioned about the encoding scheme parameter. That is not deprecated. – ihsoy ih Dec 17 '12 at 15:31
0
That looks like percent-encoded UTF-8. For each maximal sequence of (percentsign)+(hex digit)+(hex digit), first convert it to bytes by taking each pair of hex digits to encode a byte; then interpret the resulting byte sequence as the UTF-8 encoding as the actual text.
hmakholm left over Monica
- 22,498
- 2
- 49
- 73
-
-
@ihsoyih: The answer describes what the implementation of the API does, which is useful to know even if one doesn't, for the time being, need to code it explicitly. – hmakholm left over Monica Jan 19 '13 at 15:38