How to remove HTML Entities in Jsoup?

Question

How to remove HTML Entities using Jsoup? If I use Element.toString(), I get:

(...)
       <td>Letter &oacute;</td> //valid: <td>Letter ó</td>
(...)

Answer 1

This may be off-topic to the context of your question, but if you want to just decode HTML-entities without any other changes in the string (no tag processing, no comment stripping, etc) you can use org.jsoup.parser.Parser.unescapeEntities, e.g.:

assert Parser.unescapeEntities("x &asymp; <i>y</i>\n", true)
    .equals("x ≈ <i>y</i>\n");

Answer 2

I believe you can specify an encoding when you create a Jsoup Document something like this:

Document newDocument = Jsoup.parse(htmlString, StringUtils.EMPTY, Parser.htmlParser());
newDocument.outputSettings().escapeMode(EscapeMode.base);
newDocument.outputSettings().charset(CharEncoding.UTF_8);