android long dash in string in code

Question

I am trying to put a long dash "—" between two words in String in my Android project. For example something like this:

Name — Surname

The String will be converted in code, not in xml. The only way i found to do this, is converting String to HTML and back. Like this:

stringBuilder.append(Name).append(" & mdash; ").append(Surname);  
Html.fromHtml(stringBuilder.toString()).toString();

(Space between "&" and "mdash;" to prevent convertation on stackoverflow).
Can it be done more elegant, without converting to HTML and back?
Thanks

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-05-23 12:00:29Z

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Have you tried unicode notation \u2014?

Reference: How to convert a string with Unicode encoding to a string of letters

edited May 23, 2017 at 12:00

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Eugene Dudnik Over a year ago

Sorry for such a long answer. Yes, It works, thanks). Now will try to find how to mark that answer is correct)

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