decodeURIComponent or unescape question

[youngApprentice]

Anyone have any ideas on why an apostrophe comes from the server (using JSP) as the numeric entity code of ampersandpound39semicolon and I can't use decodeURI or decodeURIComponent to turn it into ' ?
Naturally I mean the symbols where I typed them out.

If I use %27 I get the apostrophe when decoding, but if I use the server supplied numeric entity code I get the numeric entity code instead of the single apostrophe.

TIA,
youngApprentice

 

[BillyRayPreachersSon]

You probably need to add an ' escapeXml="false" ' attribute to your output statement (assuming you're using the c taglib). If you're not, I'd ask in the JSP / Java forums for more information on how to stop this from happening.

Hope this helps,
Dan



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