Android Hindi Text Displaying special Characters

Question

I am making a language specific app in which user selects language from the list (either Hindi or English).

What happens is when user selects the English language ,everything works perfectly i.e user inserts the data into database and then retrieve it in the text fields properly but when user selects Hindi language and inserts data into database in Hindi language it displays text fields value as "??????"

I want is the text fields value must be displayed in Hindi language .. I have used Typeface for this but that does not work This is my part of code

Typeface tf = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "fonts/hindi.ttf");                                        //i have put hindi.ttf file in fonts folder under assets under main
        name.setTypeface(tf);

        save.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
            @Override
            public void onClick(View view) {
                if (view.getId() == R.id.tvsave) {
                    if (name.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                        name.setError("Name cannot be empty");
                    } else if (phone.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                        phone.setError("Phone No. cannot be empty");
                    } 

    else if(!phone.getText().toString().matches(phonePattern)) 
                            phone.setError("Invalid Mobile");
                        } else if (house.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                            house.setError("House No. cannot be empty");
                        } else if (area.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                            area.setError("Area cannot be empty");
                        } else if (landmark.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                            landmark.setError("Landmark cannot be empty");
                        } else if
                                (name.getText().toString().length() == 0 || phone.getText().toString().length() == 0 || house.getText().toString().length() == 0 || area.getText().toString().length() == 0 || landmark.getText().toString().length() == 0) {
                            Toast.makeText(getApplicationContext(), "Please Enter Details",
                                    Toast.LENGTH_LONG).show();
                        } else if (Utils.isNetworkAvailable(AddNewAddress.this)) {
                            new saveaddress().execute(custid, name.getText().toString(), phone.getText().toString(), house.getText().toString(), landmark.getText().toString(), datamodel.getId(), area.getText().toString());                //this is saving data into database
                        } else {
                            final Dialog dialog = new Dialog(AddNewAddress.this);
                            dialog.requestWindowFeature(Window.FEATURE_LEFT_ICON);

                            dialog.setContentView(R.layout.internetconnectiondialog);
                            dialog.setTitle(AddNewAddress.this.getResources().getString(R.string.connectionfailed));
                            TextView text = (TextView) dialog.findViewById(R.id.textDialog);
                            text.setText(AddNewAddress.this.getResources().getString(R.string.checkinternetsettings));
                            dialog.show();
                            Button declineButton = (Button) dialog.findViewById(R.id.declineButton);
                            declineButton.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() {
                                @Override
                                public void onClick(View v) {
                                    dialog.dismiss();
                                }
                            });
                        }
                    }
                }
            });
            mySpinner = (Spinner) findViewById(R.id.spncity);
            new spinnercity().execute(language);

        }



class saveaddress extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
        @Override
        protected void onPreExecute() {
            dialogFrag.show(getSupportFragmentManager(), "Dialog");
            dialogFrag.setCancelable(false);
            super.onPreExecute();
        }

        @Override
        protected String doInBackground(String... params) {
            JSONObject jsonObject;
            try {
                String response = AddNewAddressPostHit.getJSONfromURL(params[0], params[1], params[2], params[3], params[4], params[5], params[6]);

                jsonObject = new JSONObject(response.toString());
                message = jsonObject.getString("Msg");

            } catch (JSONException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            return null;
        }

        @Override
        protected void onPostExecute(String result) {
            dialogFrag.dismiss();
            super.onPostExecute(result);
        }

I want these text_fields value must be displayed in Hindi language when user inserts the data into Hindi language else English I have used Typeface for this but that does not work. Tell me where I am wrong as soon as possible.

instead of from db.. if you setText some hindi text. Otherwise it maybe some characterset issue elsewhere — Suraj Rao, Feb 04 '17 at 06:03
I have set the Text in text field from the string value got from database — Neha, Feb 04 '17 at 06:09
did @Ankush solution work? because the issue is not about displaying its either retrieval or storage. you will have to debug there — Suraj Rao, Feb 04 '17 at 06:52
i Have checked it through postman,,everything works correctly — Neha, Feb 04 '17 at 07:01
@Neha try to read data on debug. Because while display data in textview can be changed but in debug this will display the actual data — Ankush Bist, Feb 04 '17 at 07:01
@Neha postman what? Are you fetching data from server? If it is then the real problem is which i have answered below. This has to be handled at server side. — Ankush Bist, Feb 04 '17 at 07:03
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9069799/android-json-charset-utf-8-problems — Suraj Rao, Feb 04 '17 at 07:04
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34687466/converting-string-to-android-jsonobject-loses-utf-8 — Suraj Rao, Feb 04 '17 at 07:05
the text which you actually are expecting to display on your textview other than some random "???????" text — Ankush Bist, Feb 04 '17 at 07:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 04 '17 at 06:27

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try converting your string data with this while saving to db and same while fetching these from db.

String str = (URLDecoder.decode(your_editext_value, "UTF-8"));

answered Feb 04 '17 at 06:27

Ankush Bist

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