Android Get Text With Special Character From DB Using Json Into TextView - android

I'm using json to read long text from MySQL and set it on the TextView, it works without special characters but as soon as I have text like "an apostrophe' like this one" it returns null on textView. I tried using Html.fromHtml but it doesn't work. Any idea how I can use setText(string_with_special_characters)?
CODE:
public void accessWebService() {
JsonRead task = new JsonRead();
task.execute(new String[] { "http://mysite/myfile.php" });
}
try {
JSONObject jsonResponse = new JSONObject(jsonResult);
JSONArray jsonMainNode = jsonResponse.optJSONArray("json_array");
for (int i = 0; i < jsonMainNode.length(); i++) {
JSONObject jsonChildNode = jsonMainNode.getJSONObject(i);
String chapter = jsonChildNode.optString("Column1");
TextView tvChapter = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.chapter);
tvChapter.setText(Html.fromHtml(chapter));

To answer the question above, I have noticed the following strange behavior:
When I copy text (paragraph) from Microsoft Word and paste into MySQL column, TextView returns null, If I type out the entire paragraph within MySQL column TextView returns the paragraph string as expected. Copying text from Word to Scite or Notepad prior still doesn't work, typing the whole text out works. This is strange as you can't tell if text was copied and pasted or typed out in DB columns, looks exactly the same (including white space).
I can't retype everything... with the info given, please feel free to provide a solution otherwise I will be typing until next year
UPDATE
I have done further investigation:
Note the following apostrophe's
’ '
The one on the left is from text editors while the one on the right is from SQL.
SOLUTION:
UPDATE `mytable`SET `column` = replace(column, "’", "'");

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android database delete row by content

Hey Guys ive got a problem with my database.
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You have multiple errors and also you are prone to SQL injection.
You must use prepared statements or you must add quotes to your strings and escaping the quotes the string has, for example, in your code:
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You must read and understand this before going further, because you will end up with a really messy code plenty of errors and vulnerabilities: http://wangling.me/2009/08/whats-good-about-selectionargs-in-sqlite-queries.html
Good luck ;)
And also, in Java all variable names must start in lowercase (Instead of String Datum use String datum)

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If you database comes in that format from an external source, I'd write a one-time parser that parses the data and inserts it into the SQLite database for future use.
Remember that the CPU on Android devices is slower than your average PC CPU, so if you are parsing large amounts of data in this format all the time, your app might become very slow. Hence my suggestion of converting it to a database.
Another option you have in this case is using XML like you said, because there are ready-to-use parsers out there. But the advice about performance remains: you should really avoid reparsing the data all the time and, instead, store it in a ready-to-use format.
(1): http://developer.android.com/reference/android/database/sqlite/package-summary.html
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Have an object with getter/setter
Have a list intialized
1) You need to use StreamReaders/Bufferedreader to read the file
2) If each is not empty
2a) Use StringTokenizer to parse the string with "," as delimiter
2b) Set tokenized values to object
2c) Add object to list
3) return the list created in above step.
Note: If large data you need to be careful while reading entire file, you may get OutofMemoryError.
Bruno Oliveira gave very good advice.
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// Rest of your code is same.
Please try this out.I think that it will solve your problem,

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