How convert ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) to char

i use java read some web page, it contain ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) Characters, like this:
&#233
&#234(i removed ";" at end)
how convert it to char?
thanks.

Tin,
I think you're looking for Charset.decode and maybe encode.
keith.

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