As to the “vice versa” (which I needed myself, leading me to find this question, which didn’t help, and subsequently another site which had the answer): u’some string’.encode(‘ascii’, ‘xmlcharrefreplace’) will return a plain string with any non-ascii characters turned into XML (HTML) entities.
Check out my NSString category for HTML. Here are the methods available: // Strips HTML tags & comments, removes extra whitespace and decodes HTML character entities. – (NSString *)stringByConvertingHTMLToPlainText; // Decode all HTML entities using GTM. – (NSString *)stringByDecodingHTMLEntities; // Encode all HTML entities using GTM. – (NSString *)stringByEncodingHTMLEntities; // Minimal unicode encoding will only … Read more
This is much easier than you’re making it. The text node will not have the literal string “ ” in it, it’ll have have the corresponding character with code 160. function replaceNbsps(str) { var re = new RegExp(String.fromCharCode(160), “g”); return str.replace(re, ” “); } textNode.nodeValue = replaceNbsps(textNode.nodeValue); UPDATE Even easier: textNode.nodeValue = textNode.nodeValue.replace(/\u00a0/g, ” “);
I think the Apache Commons Lang library’s StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml3() and unescapeHtml4() methods are what you are looking for. See https://commons.apache.org/proper/commons-text/javadocs/api-release/org/apache/commons/text/StringEscapeUtils.html.
Based on the comments I have received, I looked into this a little further. It seems that currently the best practice is to forgo using HTML entities and use the actual UTF-8 character instead. The reasons listed are as follows: UTF-8 encodings are easier to read and edit for those who understand what the character … Read more
< stands for the less-than sign: < > stands for the greater-than sign: > ≤ stands for the less-than or equals sign: ≤ ≥ stands for the greater-than or equals sign: ≥
Use HTML character references: <html> Should output <html>
If you’re inserting text content in your document in a location where text content is expected1, you typically only need to escape the same characters as you would in XML. Inside of an element, this just includes the entity escape ampersand & and the element delimiter less-than and greater-than signs < >: & becomes & < … Read more
You have to use the escaped unicode : Like .breadcrumbs a:before { content: ‘\0000a0’; } More info on : http://www.evotech.net/blog/2007/04/named-html-entities-in-numeric-order/
With the help of bucabay and the advice to create my own function i created this one which works for me. What do you guys think, is there a better solution somewhere? if(typeof escapeHtmlEntities == ‘undefined’) { escapeHtmlEntities = function (text) { return text.replace(/[\u00A0-\u2666<>\&]/g, function(c) { return ‘&’ + (escapeHtmlEntities.entityTable[c.charCodeAt(0)] || ‘#’+c.charCodeAt(0)) + ‘;’; }); … Read more