I am using the following code for rendering a dynamically created html string on a webview. It works properly on my device. But on one of the user's device, the webview displays the raw html tags and content instead of rendering properly.
I cannot reproduce the issue on my devices. What can be cause for this issue to happen. Any device level settings? or Encoding related issue?
String htmlContent = "<html><body> .... </body></html>";
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, htmlContent, "text/HTML", "UTF-8", null);
Try this code. It works for me.
WebSettings settings = mDesc.getSettings();
settings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");
mDesc.loadData(mDescText, "text/html; charset=utf-8",null);
One of our application's users says that he cannot read news comment because of wrong symbols charset. He has Galaxy Ace Duos (GT-S6802) and made a screenshot:
Nobody else complains about the error. What could be the problem?
The app loads comments (UTF-8) from server API. Text of each comment has html format (contains images) and therefore is placed in a WebView this way:
holder.text.loadData(text, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", "utf-8");
App on Play Market: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=kz.sportlive
I solved my problem. But before it I tried to encode comment text to Base64 on server and decode it on app - didn't work.
Then I tried load encoded text in WebView:
webview.loadData(comment.text_base64, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", "base64");
It didn't work too.
Finally I tried this way:
webview.getSettings().setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");
webview.loadData(comment.text, "text/html; charset=utf-8", null);
and it works perfect!
Use it in similar situations
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 !
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);
This is a duplicate of this answer:
You will also need to unescape those sequences and to do that refer to How to Unescape Unicode in Java
Rendering UTF-8 in a WebView using loadData has been broken in some form or fashion forever.
Issue 1733
Use loadDataWithBaseURL instead of loadData.
// Pretend this is an html document with those three characters
String scandinavianCharacters = "øæå";
// Won't render correctly
webView.loadData(scandinavianCharacters, "text/html", "UTF-8");
// Will render correctly
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, scandinavianCharacters, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);
Now the part that is truly annoying is that on the Samsung Galaxy S II (4.0.3) loadData() works just fine, but testing on the Galaxy Nexus (4.0.2) the multi-byte characters are garbled unless you use loadDataWithBaseURL(). WebView Documentation
you will need to use font in order to support hindi (Hindi language is not yet fully supported by android)
create Singleton instance of Typeface and invoke createFromAsset();
and add it to WebSettings like this
WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings();
webSettings.setFixedFontFamily(InstaceOFTypeFace);
Finally I have come up with the solution of Loading hindi content to the webview.
I had simply change my loading string and unfortunately it will work.
webview.loadData(Hindi_css, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);
Thank you all for your effort. :)
You can use this one also.
String uri= Uri.encode(html file/url);
webView.loadUrl(uri);
may be this will help you.
Can any one please tell which other characters need to be converted before loading the data in webview.
view.loadDataWithBaseURL("data:",htmlString, "text/html",
"utf-8", htmlString);
Try ("data://", htmlString, "text/html", "utf-8", null).
That should load, although the back button behavior might not be correct.
I'm loading some data, containing latin-1 characters, in a WebView using
String uri = Uri.encode(html);
webview.loadData(uri, "text/html", "ISO-8859-1");
When displayed, the latin1 characters are replaced by weird characters.
If I load the html directly in a TextView (just to test), latin characters are properly displayed.
Anybody can help?
Thanks
html:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD XHTML Mobile 1.0//EN" "http://www.wapforum.org/DTD/xhtml-mobile10.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<!-- some html -->
</html>
myWebView.loadData(myHtmlString, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);
This works flawlessly, especially on Android 4.0, which apparently ignores character encoding inside HTML.
Tested on 2.3 and 4.0.3.
In fact, I have no idea about what other values besides "base64" does the last parameter take. Some Google examples put null in there.
You should always use UTF-8 encoding. Every other character encoding has become obsolete for many years already.
Only way to have it working, as commented here:
webview.loadDataWithBaseURL("fake://not/needed", html, "text/html", "utf-8", "");
No URI encoding, utf-8... loadData bug?
String start = "<html><head><meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html' charset='UTF-8' /></head><body>";
String end = "</body></html>";
webcontent.loadData(start+ YOURCONTENT + end, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);
One of solution of problem.
I have display © 2011 and it was displaying ©.
With the below code i have achieved displaying correct value © 2011
webViewContent.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, html, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, html, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
AFAIK that:
Firstly, loadData() method is used to load raw html code.
Secondly, just put the html code directly to the loadData(), don't encode it
You might wanna try like this:
webview.loadData(uri, "text/html", "ISO-8859-1");
Cheers!
I too had the problem of getting a weird character like  here and there. Tried different options, but the one that worked is below.
String style_sheet_url = "http://something.com/assets/css/layout.css";
String head = "<head> <meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\" />" +
"<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"" + style_sheet_url + "\" /></head>";
String locdata = "<html xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml\">" + head + "<body>"+ data + "</body></html>";
wv_news_text.loadData(locdata, "text/html", "utf-8");
wv_news_text is the WebView.
Info from Java docs about loadData method
Loads the given data into this WebView using a 'data' scheme URL.
Note that JavaScript's same origin policy means that script running in
a page loaded using this method will be unable to access content
loaded using any scheme other than 'data', including 'http(s)'. To
avoid this restriction, use loadDataWithBaseURL() with an appropriate
base URL.
The encoding parameter specifies whether the data is base64 or URL
encoded. If the data is base64 encoded, the value of the encoding
parameter must be 'base64'. For all other values of the parameter,
including null, it is assumed that the data uses ASCII encoding for
octets inside the range of safe URL characters and use the standard
%xx hex encoding of URLs for octets outside that range. For example,
'#', '%', '\', '?' should be replaced by %23, %25, %27, %3f
respectively.
The 'data' scheme URL formed by this method uses the default US-ASCII
charset. If you need need to set a different charset, you should form
a 'data' scheme URL which explicitly specifies a charset parameter in
the mediatype portion of the URL and call loadUrl(String) instead.
Note that the charset obtained from the mediatype portion of a data
URL always overrides that specified in the HTML or XML document
itself.
Following code worked for me.
String base64EncodedString = null;
try {
base64EncodedString = android.util.Base64.encodeToString((preString+mailContent.getBody()+postString).getBytes("UTF-8"), android.util.Base64.DEFAULT);
} catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e1) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e1.printStackTrace();
}
if(base64EncodedString != null)
{
wvMailContent.loadData(base64EncodedString, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "base64");
}
else
{
wvMailContent.loadData(preString+mailContent.getBody()+postString, "text/html; charset=utf-8", "utf-8");