Building Android App: Irish Language support

whatthefeck

Hi,

I am trying my arm as creating a Android App at the moment (my first) which requires support for Irish (Gaeilge). Currently the word Slán gets displayed like this

Sl(squre with question mark in it)n

It cant handle the Fada over the a, this is probably basic stuff but any help would be appreciated.;)

jimmycrackcorm

What are you using to display the text - is it a text control? Where do you define your text from and are you specifying utf-8 where required?

Krusty_Clown

Try representing the fada using it's unicode codepoint, e.g.:
sl\u00E1n
...where \u00E1 is the representation of the character á.

Babelpad is a handy application that will allow you to convert from unicode characters to universal character names (UCN) and back again.

whatthefeck

Thanks Guys for you replies!

No joy unfortunately

My res/layout are set to use

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>What I have done is download Searchable Dictionary
and edit the raw/definitions.txt file

It just seems to be data returned from the definitions.txt that is not formatting correctly.
Probably need to make this a .xml file or something ???

http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/SearchableDictionary/index.html

sealgaire

I can't help but good luck with it

jimmycrackcorm

whatthefeck wrote: »

It just seems to be data returned from the definitions.txt that is not formatting correctly.
Probably need to make this a .xml file or something ???

But are you reading it as utf-8?

String dictFile = "/sdcard/dictionary.txt";
int BUFFER_SIZE = 1024;

BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(new FileInputStream(dictFle), "utf8"),BUFFER_SIZE);
...

whatstherush

Had similar problem on different platform. As well as doing what jimmycrackcorn said make sure the dictionary.txt is encoded as utf8.