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I want to replace all special characters in the string shown below:

String a="Test’‵"

I want to replace ’ and ‵ with dashes (-). I have tried the following:

a=a.replaceAll("[’|‵]", "-");

This generates the following result:

Test------

instead of

Test--

How can I achieve the desired result?

iota
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    Typo? Use `(` `)` instead of `[` `]`. One represents groups, other represents *character class* which can match only *single* character from specified "range". Or don't even use `(..)`, just remove `[` `]`. – Pshemo Jul 21 '20 at 19:31
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    Before doing anything with regex, you have to solve first your encoding problem (utf-8 => Windows-1252 = correct utf-8 encoding). – Casimir et Hippolyte Jul 21 '20 at 21:27

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Don't use square brackets, as it represents a set of single characters to match (a character class).

a=a.replaceAll("’|‵", "-");

Demo!

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