Greek text on android utf8 not show properly

Question

I'm making app with Greek text and data but not every letter is shown. Letter which is not shown not make ? mark but just white space. File encoding is set to utf8 and in build.gradle, I have set compile for utf8.

For example: (agapó) ἀγαπῶ (ἀγαπᾶν) in listview is shown as (agapó) γαπ (γαπ ν). Even button on XML not shown properly same problem.

The screenshot:

  private void inicialization() {

    sound = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.sound);
    home = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.home);
    home.setOnClickListener(this);

    setData();

    listwords = (ListView) findViewById(R.id.listwords);
    adapter = new ArrayAdapter<String>(this, R.layout.adapteritem, R.id.greek_word, Timeslist);
    listwords.setAdapter(adapter);
    listwords.setOnItemClickListener(this);

    play = (Button) findViewById(R.id.play);
    stop = (Button) findViewById(R.id.stop);
    play.setOnClickListener(this);
    stop.setOnClickListener(this);

    tv1 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text1);
    tv2 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text2);
    tv3 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text3);
    tv4 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text4);
    tv5 = (TextView)findViewById(R.id.text5);

    setPlayer();
}

private void setData() {

    int index;
    index = getIntent().getIntExtra("index", 0);

    switch (index){
        case 0:
            if(lang){
                Timeslist = GlobalTimes.Times1ListCZ; // from global class of arrays
                TimesAudio = GlobalTimes.Times1AudioCZ;
                TimesWords = GlobalTimes.Times1WordsCZ;
            }
            if(!lang){
                Timeslist =  GlobalTimes.Times1List;
                TimesAudio = GlobalTimes.Times1Audio;
                TimesWords = GlobalTimes.Times1Words;
            }
            break;
    }
}

And the data from Globalclass

public class GlobalTimes {

public static String[] Times1List = { "(agapó) ἀγαπῶ (ἀγαπᾶν)", "(agó) ἄγω", "(airó) αἴρω", "(akúó) ἀκούω", "(hamartanó) ἁμαρτάνω", "(anabainó) ἀναβαίνω"};
public static Integer[] Times1Audio = { R.raw.miluji, R.raw.vedu, R.raw.zdviham, R.raw.slysim, R.raw.hresim, R.raw.jdunahoru };
public static String[][] Times1Words = {

        {
                "ἀγαπῶ",     
                "ἀγαπᾶν",    
                "ἀγαπήσω",   
                "ἠγάπησα",  
                "ἠγάπηκα",   
                "ἠγάπημαι",  
                "ἠγαπήθην", 
                "miluji"
        },
        {
                "ἄγω",
                "x",
                "ἄξω",
         ...
         ...

My adapteritem.xml

<LinearLayout
xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_width="wrap_content">

<TextView
    android:id="@+id/greek_word"
    android:layout_height="50dp"
    android:gravity="center_vertical"
    android:text="text"
    android:textSize="12dp"
    android:padding="3dp"
    android:visibility="visible"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:textColor="#FF000000"
    android:background="#FFFFFFFF" />

Build.gradle under SRC this should automaticaly set UT8...

tasks.withType(Compile) {
options.encoding = 'utf-8'

}

EDIT: PROBLEM SOLVED BY

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Use typeface Times new roman.ttf and apply to textview by override the adapter method !!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

font = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "times.ttf");

and then just make an object of this class a refer it to an listadapter

 public class MyAdapter extends ArrayAdapter<String> {
    public Context context;
    public String[] values;
    private Typeface font;

    public MyAdapter(Context context, String[] values, Typeface font) {
        super(context, R.layout.adapteritem, values);
        this.context = context;
        this.values = values;
        this.font = font;
    }

    @Override
    public View getView(int position, View convertView, ViewGroup parent) {
        LayoutInflater inflater = (LayoutInflater) context.getSystemService(Context.LAYOUT_INFLATER_SERVICE);

        View rowView = inflater.inflate(R.layout.adapteritem, parent, false);
        TextView textView = (TextView) rowView.findViewById(R.id.greek_word);

        textView.setTypeface(font);
        textView.setText(values[position]); // maybe not the best line of code but i dont know how do it better.. but works :)

        return rowView;
    }
}

Answer 1

Perhaps your editor (Eclipse) doesn't save the files as UTF-8?

Anyway, such strings should be stored in Android String Resources. As these files are XML files it is very unlikely to have encoding problems.

Edit: Even in Android Studio you can have this problem. You can check it here: