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Adding symbols through strings.xml file

I am displaying Activity's Title from strings.xml file like this
setTitle(R.string.add_contact_title);
I have following string in strings.xml
<string name="add_contact_title">Anadir Contacto</string>
but i want to display title like Añadir Contacto instead of Anadir Contacto.
is there any way to do this within the strings.xml file rather than copying and pasting the characters from another source?

You can also use unicode using the \u escape sequence like this:
<string name="add_contact_title">A\u00F1adir Contacto</string>
See here for a list of common unicode latin characters: http://unicode-table.com/en/#latin-extended-b

You can use ñ
You can find all the HTML Special Characters in this page
Special Characters in Android & HTML
just replace the code where you want to put that character. :-)

Yes you can do that. You have to start the special character with &amp
i.e for your case it will be like ñ
<string name="add_contact_title">Añadir Contacto</string>
Just check the link which will convert ASCII into Unicode
ASCII to Unicode
and Unicode Reference

Sqlite fts4 search html encoded character

I am coding a dictionary project. Its can translate english to arabic or arabic to english. Words are stored in sqlite fts4 database.
Arabic letter in database stored html encoded like
غير
When i use fts4 query syntax in english to arabic for example => stor
SELECT * FROM fts_dic WHERE english MATCH '"^stor*"';
Returned results are good for me like
store
stored
storage
But when i search arabic to english for => غير
SELECT * FROM fts_dic WHERE english MATCH '"^غير*"';
Returned results
ظغير׾
֎׾غيرظ
But i want to see result only start with my searched html encoded text like
غيرخ
غيرٗ
I use "^" at the begining of the word to get this result as you see. In english to arabic works fine but arabic to english not working properly.

The FTS documentation says:
A term is a contiguous sequence of eligible characters, where eligible characters are all alphanumeric characters and all characters with Unicode codepoint values greater than or equal to 128. All other characters are discarded when splitting a document into terms. Their only contribution is to separate adjacent terms.
In other words, punctuation characters like &#; are completely ignored; what FTS sees are the three words 1594, 1610, and 1585.
In the FTS table, you should not HTML-encode anything; just use the plain Unicode characters.
Furthermore, ^ works only in FTS4 tables (which may not be available in all Android versions).

Replace Unified compouse unicode for Google unique unicode

I need to replace the Unified composed unicodes (They are Keycaps from 0 to 9 and country flags).
Actually im implementing Emojis for my android application, then, i need to convert the Unified compouse unicode for the Google unicode, like this:
For the Keycap 0, the compused unicodes are \u00300-\u20E3 and google single unicode its U+FE837 . I have the regex for find unicode compoused (only for keycaps number), its this:
[\u0030-\u20E3]
Because keycaps unicode goes from tange \u00300 to \u00309. Then, there are any way to convert it with regex to the google unicode equivalence? Or you know other way to do this?
Thanks.

Ascii code to write sri in tamil keyboard in android

I would like to write ksh and sri using a Tamil keyboard.
It would be greatly appreciated if someone could provide the ASCII value for both?
Thank you in advance

They don't have a ascii code, they aren't ascii letters. They do have a unicode value, which is what you need. The unicode charts for tamil are found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tamil_script I'd tell you the value, but I can't read it.

Under android:codes you got to write the code of the character.
Example: Character - ௧
Code is U+0BE7
Convert the 0BE7 to decimal. The decimal value you get is to be put under the android:codes="3047"

How to replace special characters with their equivalent in android?

While i'm retrieving data from remote server i'm getting some special
characters when i get known special characters i replaced them
with their original characters but when i don't no the
special characters how can i replace them? Some of the special
characters are as follows..
â €œ €™ € €“ â; ' & € ü Ü Û Ù
û ù Ø ß
Above are some them like this i'm getting some other . How to replace
these with their original characters in android.

It seems your question is how do you decode html encoded text?
Html.fromHtml(server_response).toString();

Html.fromHtml(server_response).toString();