Question

I have a webview and am trying to load simple UTF-8 text into it.

mWebView.loadData("將賦予他們的傳教工作標示為", "text/html", "UTF-8");

But the WebView displays ANSI/ASCII garbage.

Obviously an encoding issue, but what am I missing in telling the webview to display the Unicode text?

This is a HelloWorld app.

Answer 1

Use:

mWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, "將賦予他們的傳教工作標示為", "text/html", "utf-8", null);

or using WebSettings with setDefaultTextEncoding:

WebSettings settings = mWebView.getSettings();
settings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");

For recent versions of Android, API 16 to 22 it was tested and work properly using loadData() method, requires the mimeType to include: “charset=utf-8”.

WebView mWebView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.myWebView);
WebSettings settings = mWebView.getSettings();
settings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");                   
mWebView.loadData(myCharacters, "text/html; charset=utf-8",null);

or

  mWebView.loadData(myCharacters, "text/html; charset=utf-8","UTF-8");