[android-developers] Re: Wrong UTF-8 encoding when getting string programmatically

Update: The problem was that I was using a custom font and this didn't contain these special chars. There was actually no difference between xml/programmatically, I was testing incorrectly.

Am Mittwoch, 17. Juli 2013 12:58:43 UTC+2 schrieb user123:

I have a strange issue with vietnamese translations. They're stored in strings.vi file, in the app.

The translations which are attached to TextView directly in the layout files display correctly, but if I get them programmatically: `getString(R.string.foo)`, then some of the vietnamese special chars display question marks (with squares).

I checked:

- Translations file saved in UTF-8

- Workspace uses UTF-8

I also tried:

    textView.setText(new String(getString(R.string.foo).getBytes(), "UTF-8"));

But nothing helps, still get these question marks.

I tried also setting ISO-8859-1 in getBytes - basically because I found this in some other thread but it doesn't make really sense, since the characters should be saved in UTF-8 (and otherwise, I don't know how they are stored).

    textView.setText(new String(getString(R.string.foo).getBytes("ISO-8859-1"), "UTF-8"));

This changed the result a bit, got bigger questions marks but still showing incorrectly.

I also tried changing the enconding of the xml file to UTF-16, or use UTF-16 in getString, but then everything was displayed in something I believe is Chinese.

Any ideas? Thanks.

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