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I have buttons that write into a textview. I want to write "?", but it's not allowed in strings.xml. So, I want the button to have different value (which is written to the textview) than the text in the button. How can I do this? Thanks in advance.

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  • what do you want to do? Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:14
  • I want to write "?" to a textview with a button. Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:16
  • did you already wrote some code? Would you like to share it ? Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:19
  • ? is allowed in strings.xml Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:20
  • No it says "error: Error: Resource id cannot be an empty string (at 'buttonq' with value '?')." Commented Mar 11, 2014 at 16:24

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Use

<string name="question">\?</string>

to escape the question mark.

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Thanks, it works. And how can I write a space whit another button?
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Also , you can try Html.fromHtml programmatically. Following link discusses that. android-TextView setText in Html.fromHtml to display image and text

Thanks JRH

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