Decode MS Office double quote character?

Question

I need to decode and encode the MS Office double quote character. I used escape and unescape function in JavaScript to escape the MS Office double quote character but I couldn't use it in Java. How do I do this in Java?

• MS Office double quote: “
• Double quote got from keyboard: "

Answer 1

MS Office uses the valid and legitimate Unicode characters U+201C LEFT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK ( “ ) and U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK ( ” ). Strictly speaking those are more correct, grammatically, than U+0022 QUOTATION MARK ( " ).

Unless you're working with some legacy systems that don't support Unicode strings, replacing them should be trivial (for example using String.replace("“", "\\"") in Java).