Android Question Problem with accented words reading a .txt file

[FERNANDO SILVEIRA]

Hello guys,

I'm reading words from a .txt file to a list but some accented words are replaced by a "?".
Is there something I have to do in order to preserve the original accented words?

I read some threads about UTF8 conversion. Do I have to byte-convert each caracter or is there an option applied while reading the file that does the trick?

Dim lstWords1, lstWords2 As List
lstWords1 = File.ReadList(File.DirAssets, "tabpalavras.txt")
Log(lstWords1)

Resulting data read from the file:

(ArrayList) [AVI�O, BOLA, CASA, COPO, DADO, FACA, FLOR, FOGO, FOTO, GATO, LE�O, MALA, MENINA, MENINO, QUEIJO, SUCO, TREM, X�CARA, C�MARA]

Regards,
Fernando

 

[DonManfred]

Use notepad++ to edit the file.

Change the encoding to UTF8.
Test with the new file

 

[FERNANDO SILVEIRA]

Use notepad++ to edit the file.

Change the encoding to UTF8.
Test with the new file

Don... It worked saving with UTF-8 but I also had to remove/add once again the .txt file to the project, otherwise the effect was the same.

Thank you very much.

 

[kisoft]

I have a similar problem and I found the answer. Thank you too DonManfred.