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ImGenie
ImGenie

Reputation: 323

How to avoid showing characters like Ä in android keyboard

I am stuck in an issue where one of my user entering characters like Ä in an edittext and I am preparing an XML from that data. Due to encoding issue I can't prepare a valid XML from these kind of characters. Is there anyway I can stop user to enter such kind of characters or can I hide these characters from android default keyboard itself ?

Regards

Upvotes: 0

Views: 720

Answers (3)

Vinod Pattanshetti
Vinod Pattanshetti

Reputation: 2583

Few days before I was facing same issue I solved this by creating below method.

public static String stripSpecialUTFChars(String string) {
    return string.replaceAll("\u0080", "");
  }

Please pass your String to above method and use this like below

textView.setText(Html.fromHtml(stripSpecialUTFChars(yourString)));

actually this issue is due to UTF characters.

Upvotes: -1

Divyang Panchal
Divyang Panchal

Reputation: 1909

you can restrict the user to enter only specific characters in the edit text like below,

<EditText
    android:id="@+id/YourEdittextId"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:inputType="textNoSuggestions"
    android:privateImeOptions="nm"
    android:digits="0123456789 abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ" />

Above code restrict user to enter only English digits, letters and space

Upvotes: 2

Jd Prajapati
Jd Prajapati

Reputation: 1971

Hide suggestion string in your edittext.

android:inputType="textFilter"

Upvotes: 0

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