Display UTF-8 characters in TextView

Question

Do I need to do something to display UTF-8 characters in a TextView?

I am trying to display the following characters:

זוג, למטרות רומנטיות, מיניות או אחרות, בהתאם להעדפותיהם. אתרי היכרויות מכילים מאגר מידע הכולל פרופיל אישי של מנויים. כל אדם המעוניין להצטרף לשירות, ממלא טופס הרשמה באתר ויוצר לעצמו פרופיל.

If I use Log.d(TAG, text)where it textcontains the characters that I'm going to display, it correctly displays the output of logcat. If I then use textview.setText(text), all that is displayed in the TextView is fields.

From what I read, many of these fonts, such as Hebrew, etc., are not supported by Android, however, if I send myself an email with these characters, they display correctly in the Gmail and Tiwtter applications.

How can I correctly display these characters?

UPDATE:

I installed the AnySoftKeyboard application and the Hebrew language pack, and suddenly my application will be able to display Hebrew. If I remove both of them, my application can still display Hebrew. That makes no sense to me.

Answer 1

The problem is with installing fonts.

If the font used does not have a Hebrew alphabet, you will see everything that fon't use for its default character (i.e. box).

As far as I know, all Android distributions do not have a Hebrew font installed by default, so AnySoftKeyboard has a Hebrew language pack that installs a font with the Hebrew alphabet.