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.

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Answer 1

The term you search for are "UTF8 Code Units". These Code units are basically a backslash, followed by a "x" and a hex ascii code. I wrote a little converter method for you:

public static String convertUTF8Units(String input) {
    String part = "", output = input;
    for(int i=0;i<=input.length()-4;i++) {
        part = input.substring(i, i+4);
        if(part.startsWith("\\x")) {
            byte[] rawByte = new byte[1];
            rawByte[0] = (byte) (Integer.parseInt(part.substring(2), 16) & 0x000000FF);
            String raw = new String(rawByte);
            output = output.replace(part, raw);
        }
    }

    return output;
}

I know, its a bit frowzy, but it works :)