Android Question listview control and greek characters

[kalarius]

I have a file pelaths.csv which contain name and phone number at each line
with the FX explorer editor and other editors I can read the names ( these are at greek language with utf-8)


I read the file and I add the name to a listview control but the names shows as ???????

How can I add the names to listview and show me greek characters?

Kalarakis
Greece

 

[Peter Simpson]

UTF-8 is correct?
I'm going to presume that you are NOT using TextReader, you should in fact be using StringUtils, you can then easily use LoadCSV to load the file into a list.

You should also use log(...) to see what exactly is happening before you insert each line into your listview, you can remove the log(...) once everything is working as planned.

Thinking about it, I believe that in the beginners guide there's an example on how to load a csv file into a list using LoadCSV.

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that it is utf 8 encoded? Can you upload the file?

 

[kalarius]

this is my file
I do not have a problem to load the lines to the list view
the problem is that any greek character shows as ??
english character does not have a problem

 

[kalarius]

this is a part of accesss table
when I export to file the access ask for the character code and I check the utf-8

 

[NJDude]

The file you attached doesn't seem to be UTF-8, try using the one I have attached below.

 

[kalarius]

at the left side is my list and at right is the file that you sent to me
From excel 2013 I export it to csv file

 

[NJDude]

Well, I don't care about Excel, have you tried my file on your listview?

 

[kalarius]

i try an other way

mT as textreader
mt.Initialize2(File.OpenInput(file.Dirinternal ,"pelaths.csv"),"ISO-8859-7")

this is OK
iso-8859-7 is windows excel greek code page
so I can read the file contents at windows enviroment and at android

 

[NJDude]

Well, that's good., but, you can also make sure you encode your files UTF-8 which will avoid you doing all that and it will be simpler.

Try the file I attached and see.

Do whatever floats your boat buddy.