Question

When an asset contains unicode characters in the file name, for example Chinese or Arabic, the file can not be deployed to a package, it errors out.

Renaming the file to ANSI characters fixes it.

Is there a way to get MonoDevelop + MonoDroid deploy unicode Assets?

Answer 1

I got this from the MonoDroid team (thanks jonp) and it works:

Since Android doesn’t support Unicode asset filenames, you can instead set the
file’s Build action to EmbeddedResource and use .NET resources to access the
resource:

  using (var s = new StreamReader (typeof (Activity1).Assembly
       .GetManifestResourceStream ("Úñîćödę.txt")))
   button.Text = s.ReadToEnd ();

(You may need to change the Resource ID property of the file to match the value
passed to Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream().)