Question

I must show a text in an EditText area in Android.

All works fine, but if the text uses vowel chars that have accent,

for example :

"è", "ì", "à", "ò" "ù",

a code is shown, not the right character.

I simply use

 String   text= myEditText.getText().toString();

to get the String, I store the string in a file and use

myEditText.setText(text);

to set the String text in the EditText area when I retrieve the data in a second moment.

Answer 1

I think the problem is during saving data to the file. If your file doesn’t take a utf8 character set when you save your data, then you read it back without those characters. Therefore make sure you save it correctly:

String filePath = "/sdcard/utf8_file.txt";
String UTF8 = "utf8";
int BUFFER_SIZE = 8192;

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(filePath), UTF8),BUFFER_SIZE);
BufferedWriter bw = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(new FileOutputStream(filePath), UTF8),BUFFER_SIZE);

When you read it back, then you should be able to use setText() on your myEditText as you do now.