How to display Arabic characters using unicodes in android?

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I am new to android.i am prepared one app, it support multiple languages.I want to display Arabic characters.i found one site for Unicode's,

http://www.unics.uni-hannover.de/nhtcapri/arabic-alphabet.html

I used following code for display Arabic letters,

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
         sb.append("\u0649");
         tv.setText(sb.toString());

It is working fine,but showing square box.Please help me.

Might be a font issue. See also this related question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4109182/rendering-a-unicode-character-correctly-in-textview — Mark Byers, Apr 18 '12 at 13:05

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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Android 2.1 and Android 2.2(support) don't have Proper implementation for the Arabic font.
Android 3.x(from Honeycomb) supports Arabic completely.
Unicode Characters for Arabic you will find in this PDF
or
you can fallow the procedure given in this answer.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:34

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answered Apr 18 '12 at 15:40

Chandra Sekhar

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '12 at 13:06

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There's no native support for Arabic font till Honeycomb.

answered Apr 18 '12 at 13:06

waqaslam

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yes, its should work automatically in ICS (4.0.3) because its after Honeycomb (3.0) – waqaslam Apr 18 '12 at 13:53

How to display Arabic characters using unicodes in android?

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