Android: TextView and Html not working properly

Question

I have a textview where I have to display some html greek letters

Something like this(without the spaces):

& epsilon;& phi;& alpha;& rho;

My problem is that the letter & phi; is not showing at all. Every other letter works fine but this doesn't come up. It's just a space. And I'm sure that is spelled correct because on println works fine and also when a paste here the letter it showed fine. I'm using the Html.toHtml() function. Any ideas?

CommonsWare · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-09 17:52:47Z

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First, I presume that you mean Html.fromHtml(), as Html.toHtml() takes a Spanned and creates HTML from it.

Second, Html.fromHtml() does not do anything itself with entity references. It may be that the underlying TagSoup parser, which handles parsing HTML, is doing something with some of the entity references but not all. Note that Android's edition of TagSoup may not be the same as the current one on the TagSoup site.

You might try the Unicode entity equivalent, to see if that helps.

answered Aug 9, 2014 at 17:52

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