Question

I have a WebView in which I load html page from the res/raw resource.

The WebView was not supporting Japanese text. Hence I read the html file and converted the text to utf-8 and displayed it using:

webView.loadDataWithBaseURL( null, readDataFromFile("res/raw/page.html"),  
                                  "text/html", "UTF-8", null );

The function readDataFromFile() reads the html file and returns String in UTF-8 format.
This works for displaying the Japanese text, but fails for displaying the Spanish and Danish text.

Some ASCII charaters are displayed in between with the solution above.

I cannot use loadURL() as it was having problems with displaying the Japanese text.But was working with Spanish and Danish.

Can someone help me with a simplified solution so that i can display properly all the languages in the WebView correctly.

Thanks in advance,
Sneha

Answer 1

Found a solution myself, just convert the language specific text to utf-8 format. Once this is done it displays all the text correctly in the webview. Also save the html file in eclipse as utf-8.