Android Question Edit Text with "extended characters" Spanish for example

I have edit text boxes on an activity.
When I type the extended characters such as "á", (which are comprised of the letter a and the uni-code ́ assembled with:
The Uni-code management result is fine, however the display in the textbox looks like:
with "whitespace" between the characters.
Within the code:

The text looks just fine.
(Strangely ñ doesn't create the white space...)
Is there an encoding function or setting that I am missing for the Edit Text display? ... UTF8/UTF16??
Thanks
Rusty