Android encoding a string and display in textView

Question

I have an array of strings which are in latin and have some letters which are turned into "?", I need them to display correctly.

String[] asd= {"Srećni nikad ne razmišljaju o sreći."};

in "asd" I have strings which I need to display correctly in TextView on my android device, but every "ć", "š" turns into "?".

textView.setText(asd[0]);

I am using Android Studio. Thanks

This is supposed to work. Android is unicode so this means č š ž ć đ should work normally. Have you tried setting it from you XML? — Bojan Kseneman, May 01 '15 at 20:15
Dont know why, but it doesnt work...How do I do that in xml? thanks — luk492, May 01 '15 at 20:21
Read this http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html — Bojan Kseneman, May 01 '15 at 20:26
Yeah that worked, I changed the way I was doing things to xml resource and then pulling data from there. Thanks — luk492, May 01 '15 at 20:35

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 01 '15 at 20:40

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In Android Studio there is two options for encoding you need to check

1- your project encoding
2- your IDE encoding
you will find them under setting
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Please make sure also not to hard code any strings you have to put them in string xml files

answered May 01 '15 at 20:40

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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Try using Unicode, here is a table for your convenience ; http://unicode-table.com/en/#00E8

And chech this question, it may help;

Unicode characters not displayed in TextView.setText

edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

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answered May 01 '15 at 20:27

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 01 '15 at 20:43

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You are supposed to put strings like that into your XML and get them from there. It's a good idea too, since that allows you to have several languages, yet using the same code. Read more here

answered May 01 '15 at 20:43

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Android encoding a string and display in textView

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