How to display Latin-1 characters in Android app

Question

I have to fetch text from an online database encoded in Latin-1 charset and every special Latin character (i.e. à, ò, ù, è...) was displayed with black squares with a \"?\"

Answer 1

solution was really simple but i haven't thought about it, but it has the benefit of being really simple to understand and implement. In fact, here is the code:

mIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(mSocket.getInputStream(),"ISO-8859-1"));

this way, all the incoming strings from the Latin-1 server will be decoded correctly and will be displayed perfectly on android TextViews