How to escape HTML special characters in Java?

Question

Is there a way to convert a string to a string that will display properly in a web document? For example, changing the string

\"\"

Answer 1

HTMLEntities is an Open Source Java class that contains a collection of static methods (htmlentities, unhtmlentities, ...) to convert special and extended characters into HTML entitities and vice versa.

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