Problem displaying hyphen in webview?

Question

i am trying to display html in webview but problem is it is showing euro sign instead of '

when i look at html by debugging it shows everything fine but not in webview. any one guide me what is the solution to this problem?

my code

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_webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
        _webView.getSettings().setPluginsEnabled(true);

            _webView.loadData(_urlfromSummarie, "text/html", "UTF-8");

any help would be appreciated.

For those who still need a simple answer, you can do this: http://stackoverflow.com/a/9402988/3739412 — Kevin Richards, Jun 21 '15 at 13:12

NoBugs · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-27T03:27:25.993

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You need to add a declaration in the document itself, for example:

<html>
<head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>
...

Also, LoadDataWithUrl is generally better than loadData, it doesn't require URLEncoder.encode (slow), and doesn't keep a long data url in the webview's history memory.

edited Jun 27 '12 at 03:27

answered Jul 12 '11 at 23:29

NoBugs

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thanks alot. this is what i was looking for i just added html head and meta tags and document inside body tag and now its working perfectly. – UMAR-MOBITSOLUTIONS Jul 13 '11 at 09:57

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 12 '11 at 17:10

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Looks like your UTF-8 text is being rendered as plain ASCII-- does "UTF-8" in the encoding parameter need to be lowercase? It's lowercase in the API documentation.

answered Jul 12 '11 at 17:10

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Problem displaying hyphen in webview?

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