Android :getting [OBJ] using Textview.SetText(characterSequence)

Question

I am getting [OBJ] displayed on the screen when I try to set a ImageSpan on a text View..it shows a /uFFFC unicode character instead of the image on the screen,i.e. a dotted box with OBJ written inside it.

Answer 1

I faced the same problem, thus I just wanted to have the HTML stripped and just get the String.

The solution is probably not the most beautiful one, but still pretty pragmatical:

public CharSequence stripHtml(String s) {
    return Html.fromHtml(s).toString().replace('\n', (char) 32)
        .replace((char) 160, (char) 32).replace((char) 65532, (char) 32).trim();
}

This [OBJ] character seemed to be (char) 65532.

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