How can I use Turkish characters like 'ş ç ı ö' in an Android TextView?

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I want to write 'ile' in android TextView but it isn't drawn correctly. How can use characters like this?

For example I set the my textview as 'çile' it shows as '?ile' instead; how can I fix this?

Have you checked the font being used includes these characters? — QuentinUK, Jan 30 '12 at 19:43
it is not support some porteguse ,spanish ,italian characters too. — CompEng, Jan 31 '12 at 23:52

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 30 '12 at 19:43

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Try the following and see if it helps (source):

String description = "Turkish characters here";
TextView tv = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.description); 
tv.setText(Html.fromHtml(description).toString());

answered Jan 30 '12 at 19:43

Marvin Pinto

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it is not recognize the html tag – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 23:38
@ersyn61 What `html` tag are you referring to? – Marvin Pinto Jan 31 '12 at 23:40
I use your code and ımport html but same issue. turkish charackters doesnt seen – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 23:45
it is not support some porteguse ,spanish ,italian characters too. – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 23:53
@ersyn61 Hmm then I'm not sure either. I'll look into this and see if I can find a solution that works. – Marvin Pinto Jan 31 '12 at 23:55
I write this : TextView.setText("\u015File") and yes it is seen "şile" but I write "\u015File" this in my .txt and in code I write extView.setText(x) ..: x is reading .txt and getting "u015File" but now it seems "u015File" not "şile" what can ı do? – CompEng Feb 04 '12 at 14:48
I cant ask question anymore, please let me ask again – CompEng Feb 05 '12 at 13:59
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Similar problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4522337/unicode-characters-not-displayed-in-textview-settext – QuentinUK Feb 06 '12 at 18:30
Similar problem: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4020260/display-unicode-characters-in-textview-android – QuentinUK Feb 06 '12 at 18:35

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 30 '12 at 20:00

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This to me screams: character-encoding issue. A lot of software (eg browsers, database clients) robustly handle unexpected bytes by replacing them with question marks. But Turkish characters are supported by "UTF-8", Android's default charset.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/Charset.html#defaultCharset%28%29

You may want to start by checking that your charset is indeed set to UTF-8/16 or ISO-8859-9 (Turkish). If that isn't the problem, it could be the font itself.

If that still doesn't solve the problem, I would post a small example of the code you are using to display the text. From file to database to database connection to web browser, there are many places where conversion can happen.

answered Jan 30 '12 at 20:00

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I want to my textview support all language characters? what can ı do – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 08:13
Please post a small example of your code and where you are seeing the issue. UTF8 encoding supports foreign language characters. – Brian Duncan Jan 31 '12 at 17:49
in my manifest : but when ı want to use spanish or turkish characters in textview dont seem – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 19:38
getinput.settex("grávida"); this is seems like this : gr?vida – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 23:02
it is not support some porteguse ,spanish ,italian characters too. – CompEng Jan 31 '12 at 23:53

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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This answer solved my problems for turkish characters.

https://stackoverflow.com/a/9312031/218198

edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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answered May 01 '12 at 15:36

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This simple solution did not worked for SDK's 2.3 and 3.2 for me. To cover 2.3, 3.2 and 4.0 I added some more lines: `String htmlData = "Html data with tags and turkish characters";` `String header = "";` `webView.loadData(header+htmlData, "text/html;charset=UTF-8", null);` – milkersarac May 05 '12 at 00:39

How can I use Turkish characters like 'ş ç ı ö' in an Android TextView?

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