Question

I have had a problem with formattings symbols shown on the image. I got help from this site and I used Html.fromHtml() and hope that it would use the formatting, the only thing it did was to remove the formatting symbol but not anything else like newline or so.

If I cant find a way to use the formatting I wonder if it is possible to add a “\n” everytime the symbol is shown. The thing is if I try to use a method like
(Ps the “[]” is used here instead of the real symbol cause I cant find out how to write it.

int nr=theTextString.indexOf("[]") 

and then replace the text with 

theTextString=theTextString.substring(0,nr)+ "\n" + theTextString.substring(nr);

but the problem is that the symbol is not represented as a character to look for the index at, not in any way I know of. Would really be thankful for help.

Answer 1

If [] crap character is only shown on the last chacter do this

Log.i("My String before:", theTextString);
theTextString = theTextString.substring(0, theTextString.length()-2);
Log.i("My String after:", theTextString);

Btw: [] <– is not the same character (Infact, there are two characters) it is something else.

Solution: To encode the string

theTextString = URLDecoder.decode(theTextString, HTTP.UTF-8);