I want to remove all strange special characters from a string in Java. Those strange special characters are appearing in form of ?(Question mark) in MS Word.The image of sample string is given below.
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1Learn about Unicode and UTF-8. – duffymo Mar 01 '16 at 10:14
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3and check http://stackoverflow.com/a/8519863/2166188 – Michal_Szulc Mar 01 '16 at 10:16
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BTW define *strange*. Do you want to remove all non-ascii characters? – TheLostMind Mar 01 '16 at 10:18
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Those characters not removed by using textToConvert.replaceAll("[^\\x00-\\x7F]", "") – psms Mar 01 '16 at 10:33
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1Then use: `textToConvert.replaceAll("[\\x00-\\x7F]", "")` I don't see your problem. – ctst Mar 01 '16 at 10:36
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You can use
String newString = my_string.replaceAll("\\p{C}", "");
more information about Java Unicode Regular expression Java Unicode Regular expression here
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I suggest .replaceAll("[!@#$%ˆ&*/\\(\\)\\{\\};:<>/?,.|\\[\\]]", ""); it will keep é, á,ç ã for other languages – Ricardo Gellman Jan 18 '19 at 12:46
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This will work:
String string = yourString.replaceAll("[^\\x00-\\x7F]", "");
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