Hindi Character will not display in web view correctly

Question

I had Database in which data stored in hindi as \u092e\u0948\u0902 \u0924\ and setting that content to webview using below.

  webview1.loadData(hindi_content, "text/html", "UTF-8");

But it will display as

I don't know why that's happening. Any one please suggest. how to fix that !

Answer 1

This happens because of a bug with the encoding parameter of loadData in most Android versions. This parameter is ignored for some reason so the UTF-8 based hindi characters will not be rendered. To fix this you can use one of the following alternatives.

webview1.loadData(hindi_content, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);


webview1.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, hindi_content, "text/html", "utf-8", null);