String.replace not Working

Question

I have a string in my maven project and when I run it on my local machine, I have

String name = title.get(i).text().replace("é", "e");

Later I save the variable name to a file

But then when I export to .jar and run the it on my server I see é not e, but when I run on my local machine I see "e" which is what I want.

What is happening?

• Enamul Hassan: What is the type of title?
• Chris Martin: I don't think you've given enough information to answer this question. It probably has something to do with the platform's default charset or file encoding, and nothing to do with String.replace.
• spen123: @ChrisMartin when you say platform you mean the server I am trying to run it on?, but it runs normal java how would it not do replace?
• Enamul Hassan: @spenf10 try this or this
• VGR: Where are the text values coming from? I wonder if perhaps your strings contain the single character '\u00e9' when you run the program locally, whereas the strings on your server contain the sequence '\u0065\u0301'. If that's the case, you can create a Matcher outside your loop using Matcher matcher = Pattern.compile("e", Pattern.CANON_EQ).matcher("");, and inside your loop, you can do String name = matcher.reset(title.get(i).text()).replaceAll("e");.

Answer 1

If you are trying to change that from a web page you may want to try:

String name = title.get(i).text().replace("%C3%A9", "e");