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Commit c55277d6 authored by Raph Levien's avatar Raph Levien
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Improve Html.toHtml() documentation 

The existing documentation is very terse and users were getting
confused whether the method escapes HTML metacharacters or not. Expand
the description a bit and explicitly state that metacharacters are
escaped.

Bug: 17456925

Change-Id: Icaae7fe1344629de5c0860674f3913781de18013
parent 77cae786

core/java/android/text/Html.java

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@@ -137,7 +137,12 @@ public class Html { 
    }



    /**

     * Returns an HTML representation of the provided Spanned text.

     * Returns an HTML representation of the provided Spanned text. A best effort is

     * made to add HTML tags corresponding to spans. Also note that HTML metacharacters

     * (such as "<" and "&") within the input text are escaped.

     *

     * @param text input text to convert

     * @return string containing input converted to HTML

     */

    public static String toHtml(Spanned text) {

        StringBuilder out = new StringBuilder();