If http response contains "charset=utf-8", use utf-8 to display the offline page

[axkr]

If the Content-Type in the http response contains "charset=utf-8", use utf-8 to display the page. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_HTTP_header_fields#Response_fields

[JonasCz]

The HTML file usually specifies the charset, and webview should use this, right? AFAIK, there is no way to set the charset the webview uses. (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

[axkr]

According to this entry: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3961589/android-webview-and-loaddata

something like this should work

myWebView.loadData(myHtmlString, "text/html; charset=UTF-8", null);

at least for Android > 4.0

[JonasCz]

The problem is that I save the page as HTML, and load it into the webview using webview.loadurl("file://" + locationOfHtmlFile) The webview should auto detect the encoding, right? Also, does it not work the way it is currently done?

[axkr]

utf-8 files are definitly shown with garbled characters!

Maybe this suggestions helps? http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4933069/android-webview-with-garbled-utf-8-characters

Copied example:

// Pretend this is an html document with those three characters
String scandinavianCharacters = "øæå";

// Won't render correctly
webView.loadData(scandinavianCharacters, "text/html", "UTF-8");

// Will render correctly
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, scandinavianCharacters, "text/html", "UTF-8", null);

[JonasCz]

The problem is that I am saving the page as a HTML file (On SD card) , and the WebView should autodetermine the correct character encoding (from the <meta charset="UTF-8"> in the HTML file, just like a browser would.)

Is what I am doing now actually a problem with any specific websites?

It seems a little odd that I should read the HTML file as a String before loading it into the WebView.

Are you shure that the bad characters are not introduced into the file when downloading / parsing / saving the HTML file?

[axkr]

Take for example the german Spiegel Online - m.spiegel.de where all german umlaut characters are garbled. Samsung Galaxy / Android 4.4.x

Note: on a PC desktop it switches to another layout but this should have the same effect as the mobile version.

[JonasCz]

Yes, I get this too. Loading the HTML file as a string first seems a bit of a hack to me , but will try it. Maybe there is some other solution?

[JonasCz]

Should be fixed now.