HTML Entity Escape Character Conversion

Question

Requirement is to Convert UTF-8 encoded Speciual language characters to HTML Entity Escape Character's. For example In the source I have a Description field with value "Caractéristiques" which is 'Characteristics' in French, This needs to be converted to "Caractéristiques" when sent to the Reciever.i.e the Special Language Symbols like é = é (in HTML Entity format.)
Below is the Link for a List of HTML Entity Char's
http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/article.php?article=11
could anybody please suggest how this can be achieved in mapping...any UDF or Encoding techniques...?
many Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi Veera
this is ajay
code for ur problem
String ToHTMLEntity(String s) {
          StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(s.length());
          boolean lastWasBlankChar = false;
          int len = s.length();
          char c;
          for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
               c = s.charAt(i);
               if (c == ' ') {
                    if (lastWasBlankChar) {
                         lastWasBlankChar = false;
                         sb.append(" ");
                    } else {
                         lastWasBlankChar = true;
                         sb.append(' ');
               } else {
                    lastWasBlankChar = false;
                    // HTML Special Chars
                    if (c == '"')
                         sb.append("&quot;");
                    else if (c == '&')
                         sb.append("&amp;");
                    else if (c == '<')
                         sb.append("&lt;");
                    else if (c == '>')
                         sb.append("&gt;");
                    else if (c == '
                         // Handle Newline
                         sb.append("&lt;br/&gt;");
                    else {
                         int ci = 0xffff & c;
                         if (ci < 160)
                              sb.append(c);
                         else {
                              sb.append("&#");
                              sb.append(new Integer(ci).toString());
                              sb.append(';');
          return sb.toString();
rewrd points if it help u