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Suchi
Suchi

Reputation: 10039

Android - Characters such as å,ä,ö do not render correctly in WebView

I am using the following code to render my webview in android - 

webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, "Subject: "+ getSubject() +" Content: "+ getContent() , "text/html" , "UTF-8", "");

The subject and content that I receive from the server are UTF encoded and show wrongly as Ã¥,ä,ö in the log and on screen. However in iOS webview they show up correctly as å,ä,ö. How do I get them to show as å,ä,ö in android as well?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1333

Answers (3)

maohieng
maohieng

Reputation: 1736

make sure the content you recieve, in tag <head> use like this: <meta charset="UTF-8" >

Sorry for my English. :)

Upvotes: 1

Suchi
Suchi

Reputation: 10039

It was due to how I was retrieving the message from the server. I was reading the Http response character by character so it broke up the encoding. When I started reading line by line it worked fine!

Upvotes: 0

Gio
Gio

Reputation: 1954

I think it's more of a font problem than code itself. Try putting DejaVuSans.ttf font instead of DroidSansFallback.ttf on the android itself. It should fix it. I'd search forum.xda-developers.com for a solution.

Upvotes: 0

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