Displaying portuguese characters Android

Question

I\'m developing an Android app and when it was suposed to write words like \"não\" or \"cabeça\", with characters with \"~\" or \"ç\" for example, it writes \"ã\" or \"ç\". I

Answer 1

Looks like UTF8 interpreted as ISO-8859-x.

In theory, you could supply the javac compiler -encoding UTF-8 on the command line but that would be the wrong solution.

Instead, move all your user-facing strings to an XML resource file. In there unicode character encoding works out of the box.

Further reading: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html