Android - Characters such as å,ä,ö do not render correctly in WebView

Issue

I am using the following code to render my webview in android -

webview.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, "Subject: "+ getSubject() +" Content: "+ getContent() , "text/html" , "UTF-8", "");

The subject and content that I receive from the server are UTF encoded and show wrongly as Ã¥,ä,ö in the log and on screen. However in iOS webview they show up correctly as å,ä,ö. How do I get them to show as å,ä,ö in android as well?

Solution

It was due to how I was retrieving the message from the server. I was reading the Http response character by character so it broke up the encoding. When I started reading line by line it worked fine!

Answered By - Suchi