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-rw-r--r--core/java/android/text/TextUtils.java6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/core/java/android/text/TextUtils.java b/core/java/android/text/TextUtils.java
index 95a3cdc6ad8d..43dfc8183ec6 100644
--- a/core/java/android/text/TextUtils.java
+++ b/core/java/android/text/TextUtils.java
@@ -1325,7 +1325,11 @@ public class TextUtils {
sb.append("&"); //$NON-NLS-1$
break;
case '\'':
- sb.append("'"); //$NON-NLS-1$
+ //http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1
+ // The named character reference ' (the apostrophe, U+0027) was introduced in
+ // XML 1.0 but does not appear in HTML. Authors should therefore use ' instead
+ // of ' to work as expected in HTML 4 user agents.
+ sb.append("'"); //$NON-NLS-1$
break;
case '"':
sb.append("""); //$NON-NLS-1$