Why doesn't Webview display strings other than in English?

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I have used the following code to display a string in android Webview:

    webView.loadData(anEnglishString + "<br />" + aPersianString, "text/html", "utf-8");

Also Note that I tried to substitute "utf-8" with: "unicode", "utf8", "utf-16", "ansi", ... But each time I got the following output in WebView:

This message is in English
%%#:-=%@+=%-#@##%@%

By the way, I also tried to use:

    webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, ..., null);

as well as:

    webView.getSettings().setDefaultTextEncoding();

But I'm still getting the same wired characters for Persian message.

Is aPersianString properly constructed using some persian known encoding? or using utf-8 — gunar
– gunar, Commented Oct 7, 2013 at 8:24

Joseph_Marzbani · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-08 18:54:50Z

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I finally used the following code to solve the problem:

    WebView.LoadUrl("data:text/html;charset=UTF-8," + nonEnglishString);

answered Oct 8, 2013 at 18:54

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Amit Gupta · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-07 08:24:44Z

I have also come with the same problem and i fixed that problem.

You should use like this,

try {
                // get input stream for text
                InputStream is = getAssets().open("YOUR HTML.html");//index.html
                // check size
                int size = is.available();
                // create buffer for IO
                byte[] buffer = new byte[size];
                // get data to buffer
                is.read(buffer);
                // close stream
                is.close();
                webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, new String(buffer),
                        "text/html", "utf-8", null);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }

Behrouz.M · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-06 13:48:20Z

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use this:

webview.loadData(html_content, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "utf-8");

I tested it, and it works.

answered May 6, 2014 at 13:48

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