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Chrispix
Chrispix

Reputation: 18251

Unicode from JSON works fine for text view on android, assign to string, and it does not work

Basically if I do something like 

myTextView.setText(jsonObj.getString(USER_NAME));

My text view will show the correct text : あ

if I do the following:

String myText = jsonObj.getString(USER_NAME);
myTextView.setText(myText);

The text also appears correct & shows : あ

In my use case. I have a class RowRecord & constructor & class var

public class RowRecord {
   public String mUserName = "";

   public RowRecord (JSONObject jsonObj, Context context) {
       mUserName = munzee.getString(Constants.MUNZEE_FRIENDLY_NAME);
   }
}

I then have my arrayAdapter

public class MyArray extends ArrayAdapter<RowRecord>

When overriding getView

@Override 
public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
    RowRecord rowRecord = getItem(position);
.
.
.
    TextView myUserName = (TextView)itemView.findViewById(R.id.txtUserName);
    txtUserName.setText(rowRecord.mUserName);

It ends up displaying like &#12354;

So I went and tried to do the following 

String myText= new String( jsonObj.getString(USER_NAME).getBytes(), "UTF-16" );

Unfortunately it displayed it as some square boxes.

I then

Any help would be appreciated, Thanks

Upvotes: 0

Views: 788

Answers (1)

Nikolay Elenkov
Nikolay Elenkov

Reputation: 52956

Look at the raw JSON string, and make sure strings are in the same encoding your code expects. Your safest bet is to use UTF-8 throughout.

Upvotes: 1

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