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

Me also struggled with this for one day but finally found a solution.

Just add these two lines of code it will work

WebSettings webSettings = webView.getSettings();
webSettings.setDefaultTextEncodingName("utf-8");