title: How do I decode html coded characters in an NSString?
body: <p>I am writing an app with both english and french support. The app requests information from a server and the server response uses JSON. I am using the JSONKit library to parse the response but the strings its parsing from the french responses look like this: </p>
  
  <p><code>Membres &amp;#8211;&amp;#201;conomisez 5% sur les services et jusqu&amp;#8217;&amp;#224; 15% sur d&amp;#8217;autres produits</code></p>
  
  <p>How do I decode the special characters? so that I get this: </p>
  
  <p>Membres &#8211;&#201;conomisez 5% sur les services et jusqu&#8217;&#224; 15% sur d&#8217;autres produits</p>
  
  <p>I looked at the API for NSString and tried some of the instance methods but I don't know much about character encodings and I ended up getting some weird results. So if you can also provide a brief explanation on character encodings I'd really appreciate it.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance </p>