How can I use Turkish characters like 'ş ç ı ö' in an Android TextView?

Question

I want to write \'ile\' in android TextView but it isn\'t drawn correctly. How can use characters like this?

For example I set the my textview as \'çile\' it shows as \'

Answer 1

This to me screams: character-encoding issue. A lot of software (eg browsers, database clients) robustly handle unexpected bytes by replacing them with question marks. But Turkish characters are supported by "UTF-8", Android's default charset.

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/nio/charset/Charset.html#defaultCharset%28%29

You may want to start by checking that your charset is indeed set to UTF-8/16 or ISO-8859-9 (Turkish). If that isn't the problem, it could be the font itself.

If that still doesn't solve the problem, I would post a small example of the code you are using to display the text. From file to database to database connection to web browser, there are many places where conversion can happen.