I'm getting the following from a data source
O'Brien
It should be rendered as
O'Brien
How can encode/transform this string as what it is supposed to be?
Also, how is this kind of encoding called?
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Daniel Rodríguez Meza
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1It's called an HTML entity. If you assign it to `innerHTML` it will be rendered as expected. – Barmar Sep 17 '21 at 02:30
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@Barmar I'm trying to do this in `node` do you know how can I achieve it? – Daniel Rodríguez Meza Sep 17 '21 at 02:44
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1It is just an hex code of the character, between `&x` and `;`. You can just write a function to do the translation. – Giacomo Catenazzi Sep 17 '21 at 06:52