Handling smart/curly quotes in Java

Hi - I want to know how to handle smart / curly quotes in Java. I need to replace them with actual quotes. I was trying somethin like below.
xmlString = xmlString .replaceAll( "", "'" );
but this is not working. Just tried to print indexOf( """) and it only returns -1. I was trying to use the html equiv value inside i.e &#8216(folowed by semicolon. the preview replaces it with actual value)
Pls guide me on this. Its urgent!!
-Thanks,
Magesh
Edited by: magesh_rathnam on Jan 31, 2010 7:09 PM
Edited by: magesh_rathnam on Jan 31, 2010 7:10 PM

I guess not then...
Anyhow try this:
public static String replaceSmartQuotes(String smartQuotedString) {
return smartQuotedString.replaceAll("[]", "\"").replaceAll("[]", "'");
}{code}
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Ah, the old double-encoding ploy! It looks like the text was encoded as UTF-8, then the resulting byte array was decoded as windows-1252, then the result was encoded again as UTF-8. // original string:
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C3 A2 E2 82 AC C2 9D The conversion to windows-1252 followed Microsoft's practice instead of its specification, so the "9D" control character is stored safely in its UTF-8 encoding, "C2 9D". Unfortunately, Java follows the spec, so getting the character back out is not so easy (and that maybe-bug is relevant--my apologies). It treats '\u009D' as an invalid character and converts it to 0x3F, the encoding for the question mark.
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