how to show hindi character in android webview

Question

how to show hindi characters in android ,i have simple webview apllication ,it loads the url of some site which contains hindi characters ,but its showing [][][][ at place

Answer 1

There is no way (not yet) to show any of the Indian characters of Indian languages on Android. It simply is not supported. See the following links for further information:

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It existed as a feature request, at least until 2.2. I am not sure if language support has been added for Hindi and other Indian languages from Android 2.3 and 3.0 onwards.

On a side note, does the same website work properly when you open it with a normal web browser?