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Bug in Apache Commons StringEscapeUtil?

Just started using Apache Commons StringEscapeUtils.

According to http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp, Ö should correspond to Ö. However,

System.out.println(StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4("Ö"));

prints

×

Is this a bug? Or what am I missing?

Solution

  • version 2.5 StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml prints Ö

    version 3.0-beta StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml3 and StringEscapeUtils.unescapeHtml4 print ×

    Generally I'd use the latest stable version (currently 2.5). Looks like a bug but I couldn't find anything useful in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/LANG