How can I display special characters (like –) in the TextView?

Question

How can I display special characters(like – ") in a TextView?

Answer 1

I've implemented this solution.

Activity class:

textView.setText( getString(R.string.author_quote, "To be or not to be", "Shakespeare") )

strings.xml:

« %1$s » - %2$s

HTML chars are written directly in strings.xml, no additional Html.fromHtml() is needed. It works fine on all my devices.