Show special characters in a webview

Question

I have a text (sInfoText) with a lots of special characters like 'è'.

I would like to show this special character also in a webview, but I get rubbish characters. Howto convert this special characters programmatically?

wvinfo.loadData(sInfoText,"text/html", "UTF-8");

try wvinfo.loadData(sInfoText, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);.ll work on above 4.0.0 — Dhwanik Gandhi, Jan 17 '15 at 11:27
`I have a text`... Make sure that this text is originally saved in UTF-8. It won't be converted to UTF-8. — Phantômaxx, Jan 17 '15 at 11:31
@Dhwanik : Thanks a lot , that solved it. If you like you can answer and I will accept. — mcfly soft, Jan 17 '15 at 11:32
Possible duplicate of [Android WebView with garbled UTF-8 characters.](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4933069/android-webview-with-garbled-utf-8-characters) — Sebastian, Apr 24 '17 at 15:44

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 17 '15 at 11:36

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try

wvinfo.loadData(sInfoText, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);

this ll work on above 4.0.0

answered Jan 17 '15 at 11:36

Dhwanik Gandhi

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