Primefaces encoding of & instead of &

Question

Hi I am using PrimeFaces Autocomplete to display a list of business names. The business names are held in an Oracle Database. The problem is that for a business name, like B & Q, autocomplete displays the & as & for example B & Q. I tried using a URLDecoder method with business.getBusinessName() as the string and was having no success. Any suggestion on how to resolve this HTML encoding problem? Thanks Bryce

Answer 1

Managed to use the word "and" instead of the ampersand symbol using the following code. Not ideal but it is a workaround.

businessNameCapitalized.setDisplayName(WordUtils.capitalizeFully(businessNameCap‌​italized.getBusinessName()).replaceAll("\\B&\\B", "and"));