Android Question Special characters

[GiovanniPolese]

Hi to all.
I am working on a tablet that has special chars related to its country Language. When used with standard Apps, for example writing phone messages, there are no problems (of course).
I have to do an App that displays some Spinners with words containing special characters, that are read from a file, which is preloaded in the tablet. A special char, is 'ã', for example.
The Log in the debugger doesn't show that character, but a black icon with a question mark. Moreover, when I Add the words with such special chars, in a Spinner, I get the same behavior, namely a question mark icon instead of the special char. Is it possible to resolve this issue?
Thanks in advance.

 

[Erel]

Can you upload the text file (as an attachment)?

 

[MarcoRome]

Try with this file in attachment:

Dim a As String = File.ReadString(File.DirAssets, "test.txt")
Log(a)

ã Ş Ç ğ Σ Σ

What you see. is it right ?

 

[DonManfred]

What you see. is it right ?

Yes. The Text is UTF8 encoded

 

[MarcoRome]

Yes. The Text is UTF8 encoded

Yes and i see also in log windows without problem

 

[DonManfred]

The problem is probably that the TO uses a file with another Encoding

 

[MarcoRome]

The problem is probably that the TO uses a file with another Encoding

Yes me too think this.

 

[DonManfred]

Yes me too think this.

I think Erel too as he asked the TO to upload such a file.

 

[GiovanniPolese]

Hi. The file is a txt file like this attached. The Language is Portuguese. Thanks.

 

[DonManfred]

Save the file with UTF8-Encoding instead of ANSI-encoding
Alternatively load the file USING the correct encodung

 

[Erel]

It is not encoded in UTF8. You can use Notepad++ to convert it to UTF8 encoding or load it with TextReader and use the correct encoding (maybe Windows-1250).

 

[GiovanniPolese]

Ok. Thanks. I have seen the problem: when saving the file with NotePad, must be sure that it is UTF8 text file. Mine was ANSI. I got the file from Windows programs, and didn't focus this detail. Thanks to all again.

 

[Erel]

Programmers should not use Notepad. Text editors are important. Try Notepad++.