Android displays text in wrong encoding after update to Java 8

Question

I\'ve updated my project to SDK version 24 and Java 8 and encountered a strange encoding issue.

By some strange reason Android treats my hardcoded UTF-8 strings as

Answer 1

This is a bug in Jack compiler, have a look at this post.

Jack has been using the default VM encoding, which on windows is windows-1252. So, your text is encoded with UTF-8 and decoded with windows-1252 by Jack compiler, and this is why they became garbled.

Until now, Gradle Plugin doesn't support an API to set the decode format, so we need to wait...