How to specify Japanese encoding for a Label?

Question

When I attempt to display kanji a Label on Android, it gets displayed as Chinese instead of Japanese

For example, the difference between the character "直" in Chinese and Japanese:

(see here for more examples)

According to this post, Android chooses the default based on whether or not the user has Japanese installed as a language.

Is there any way to tell it to pick the Japanese encoding?

Answer 1

A solution involving a custom renderer:

Android project:

[assembly: ExportRenderer(typeof(Label), typeof(JapaneseLabelRenderer))]
namespace MyProject.Controls
{
    public class JapaneseLabelRenderer : LabelRenderer
    {
        public JapaneseLabelRenderer(Context context) : base(context) { }

        protected override void OnElementChanged(ElementChangedEventArgs<Label> e)
        {
            base.OnElementChanged(e);
            Control.TextLocale = Locale.Japan;
        }
    }
}