Decoding html returned as json response - android

Question

I am getting following encoded html as a json response and has no idea how to decode it to normal html string, which is an achor tag by the way.

x3ca hrefx3d         


        

Answer 1

That's not an encoding I've seen before, but it looks like xYZ (where Y and Z are hex digits [0-9a-f]) means "the character whose ascii code is 0xYZ". I'm not sure how the letter x itself would be encoded, so I would recommend trying to find out. But then you can just do a find and replace on the regex x([0-9a-f]{2}), by getting the integer represented by the two hex numbers, and then casting it to a char (or something similar to that).

Then also, it looks like slashes (and other characters? See if you can find out...) always have a backslash in front of them, so do another find-and-replace for that.