java - BitmapFont special characters not displayed in Android, in desktop version works though -

java - BitmapFont special characters not displayed in Android, in desktop version works though -

i have libgdx project supports android , desktop version. fonts used freetypefontgenerator generate fonts. fonts worked fine, decided create bitmapfonts .fnt & .png file, have alternative back upwards html project (freetypefontgenerator not compatible html)

the problem: if launch android project there no special chars (ü, ñ, etc.) displayed:

--> in android text displayed this: ber

--> in desktop text correctly displayed this: über

the odd thing if run desktop version special characters work fine, although desktop version uses same code (since create font in core project):

font = new bitmapfont(gdx.files.internal("fonts/gooddog40.fnt"), new textureregion(new texture("fonts/gooddog40.png")));

the .fnt & .png files looks me (and works fine in desktop!), since can see special chars contained there. create next using hiero font generator:

gooddog40.png

gooddog40.fnt

info face="gooddog" size=40 bold=0 italic=0 charset="" unicode=0 stretchh=100 smooth=1 aa=1 padding=0,0,0,0 spacing=0,0 mutual lineheight=42 base=34 scalew=512 scaleh=512 pages=1 packed=0 page id=0 file="gooddog40.png" chars count=149 char id=32 x=0 y=0 width=0 height=0 xoffset=0 yoffset=34 xadvance=7 page=0 chnl=0 char id=106 x=0 y=0 width=19 height=34 xoffset=-5 yoffset=8 xadvance=8 page=0 chnl=0 char id=116 x=19 y=0 width=18 height=32 xoffset=0 yoffset=10 xadvance=16 page=0 chnl=0 char id=89 x=37 y=0 width=16 height=31 xoffset=0 yoffset=7 xadvance=14 page=0 chnl=0 char id=124 x=53 y=0 width=8 height=30 xoffset=1 yoffset=7 xadvance=7 page=0 chnl=0 char id=125 x=61 y=0 width=14 height=30 xoffset=0 yoffset=7 xadvance=13 page=0 chnl=0 char id=83 x=75 y=0 width=21 height=30 xoffset=-1 yoffset=7 xadvance=18 page=0 chnl=0 char id=82 x=96 y=0 width=19 height=30 xoffset=0 yoffset=6 xadvance=16 page=0 chnl=0 char id=80 x=115 y=0 width=22 height=30 xoffset=-1 yoffset=6 xadvance=19 page=0 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what tried debug it:

cleaning project , launching again added log statement: gdx.app.log("font", "contains ü: " + font.containscharacter('ü')); prints font: contains ü: true both android , desktop project!! @ point android project aware of existence of special char in font, why cannot display it?

what reason why font doesn't display special chars in android, in desktop does?

now identified root cause of problem: in end encoding problem.

a bit surprizing me since used same text resources desktop & android, turns out android version didn't encoding iso-8859-1, while desktop fine that.

changing encoding utf-8 fixed display of special chars in android.

in end have next solution text translations while maintain using same resource bundle properties (encoded in utf-8) both projects:

public string get(string key) { if(dictbundle.containskey(key)) { if (isdesktop) { seek { homecoming new string(dictbundle.getstring(key).getbytes("iso-8859-1"), "utf-8"); } grab (unsupportedencodingexception e) { e.printstacktrace(); } } homecoming dictbundle.getstring(key); } homecoming key; }

where dictbundle resourcebundle , set boolean isdesktop next way:

isdesktop = gdx.app.gettype().equals(application.applicationtype.desktop);

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