Converting UNICODE to regular text
I don't know if the subject line really explains my problem. I'm reading some content from a URL and would like to write that content back to a database. This all works fine except when the Html of that URL contains character codes.
As an example: "Effects on blood lipids of a blood pressure & #8211; lowering....."
As you can see from this, it put instead of putting the dash (-). What I would like to write to my database is:
"Effects on blood lipids of a blood pressure?lowering diet..."
instead of
"Effects on blood lipids of a blood pressure & #8211; lowering....."
Does anyone have any ideas? Is there a way to transform all codes to there character equivalent?
Thanks for your help
(By the way, the html isn't quite right. I had to put it in brackets and insert a space for it to display correctly in the forum)
