how to show hindi character in android webview

Question

how to show hindi characters in android ,i have simple webview apllication ,it loads the url of some site which contains hindi characters ,but its showing [][][][ at place of those characters ,even the default android browser shows the same (not showing the hindi characters) the android version is 2.1, text encoding is set on unicode(UTF-8) in default android browser .,is there is any way to get the support for hindi characters i hope my question is clear ,

Answer 1

Its the font-support

The Characters other than the most Basic ones, are not there in the TTF Font Files - Namely, DroidSans and DroidSansFallback

Any system needs to have the font on it to display the same.
In case of web pages, you can provide the font to the client to download and use

But in case of Android, its supposed to load characters only from DroidSans.ttf and DroidSansFallback.ttf

So if you want to view something in Hindi, these font files ( in system/fonts ) must support your characters

Your Options...

1. DroidSans.ttf is limited so you can't edit that. Download any font that has Hindi Character support and name it to DroidSans.ttf and replace in system/fonts.
   - This will mess your default font

2. Download a TTF font that has Hindi Characters and Name it to DroidSansFallback.ttf and replace in system/fonts.
   - This won't mess up anything & is a Better Option

3. Create a font using Font Designing Softwares and ADD as many characters as you wish (including HINDI) and follow the latter part of statement 2.
   - The BEST Option !!

4. Use a Browser that has its own support for Hindi Fonts.
   - Simplest option for people without ROOT *

* - Root implies Rooting of Android Device - Rooting Android