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Petros9282
Petros9282

Reputation: 41

Android 4.0 html encoding breaks down in web view

I have an application running in android 2.3.6 (news reader app). I use web views with custom html to present article detail. The encoding is utf-8 and I use the load data function to show content.

The problem is that in android 4.0 emulator (and devices) the encoding breaks down. I have tried using base64 encoding, which fixes the problem for android 4.0 but breaks down the encoding in 2.3.6.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

ps: the app is in greek. I do not see any escaped characters, just meaningless symbols

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1481

Answers (1)

andrei_zaitcev
andrei_zaitcev

Reputation: 1458

I found a solution for Russian. Android WebView LoadData - Turkish Chars

if you have htmlsource: 

webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("", source, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

or

webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(url, "", "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

Maybe it'll help you too.

Upvotes: 6

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