How to unescape HTML 5 entities in Java (')

The answers to this question mostly suggest to use apache-common-text StringEscapeUtils. But this (latest version of commons-text is 1.9) only supports HTML 4, and Mastodon appears to use HTML 5 which includes '. How can I decode HTML 5 entities, including '?

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unbescape does the job well:

final String unescapedText = HtmlEscape.unescapeHtml("&apos;");
System.out.println(unescapedText);

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final String unescapedText = HtmlEscape.unescapeHtml("&apos;");System.out.println(unescapedText);​

Result:

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'​

Maven:

<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.unbescape/unbescape -->
<dependency>
    <groupId>org.unbescape</groupId>
    <artifactId>unbescape</artifactId>
    <version>1.1.6.RELEASE</version>
</dependency>

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<!-- https://mvnrepository.com/artifact/org.unbescape/unbescape --><dependency>    <groupId>org.unbescape</groupId>    <artifactId>unbescape</artifactId>    <version>1.1.6.RELEASE</version></dependency>​

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