BrowserComponent will not display chinese on iOS

[Gareth Murfin]

I have found many conversations on stackoverflow but none of them worked. I am trying to display chinese in a BrowserComponent on iOS, I build the html as a string then save it to FileSystemStorage, then view it using setUrl, but the result is always garbage when I view it on a BrowserComponent on iOS. 

If I make a form and add a button with this in it displays well but I need to be able to view it in a BrowserComponent since it has links etc. Is there any way to display chinese on a BrowserComponent?

Tried 

out.write(html.getBytes("UTF-8"));

 Util.writeUTF(html, new DataOutputStream(out));

and many more solutions, but not been able to  get it to work, it works on Android without any special code. Any ideas?

[Gareth Murfin]

Note that after saving it etc, i can re-load it and display and nothing is lost, so I think there is something weird about the browsercomponent on ios. 

Ie instead of:

browser.setURL(newHTMLpath); //wont display chinese properly

I can do 

browser.getParent().removeAll();/////            

              f.setLayout(new FlowLayout());

            ///READ I NWHAT WE SAVED SEE IF ITS STILL IN TACT?

            InputStream myinput = FileSystemStorage.getInstance().openInputStream(newHTMLpath);      

            String arse = Util.readToString(myinput);

         

           StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(arse," ");

            while (st.hasMoreElements())

            {

                String s =(String) st.nextElement();

                 f.add(new SpanLabel(s));////does display chinese properly

[Shai Almog]

A better way is to use a writer:

Writer w = new InputStreamWriter(input, "UTF-8");
w.write(string);

Check the string in the debugger first to make sure it wasn't corrupted before this stage.

[Gareth Murfin]

Wow, a new way I have not seen, thanks Shai! Fingers crossed, will give it a go!

[Gareth Murfin]

Yeah still no luck, its very weird, still displays fine on span labels, but in browsercomponent its all messed up. Kind of stops the development of this chinese/japanese learning app...on iphone at least.... alternatives? I was thinking of making the screens using labels and buttons, a lot more work than just using the html and might be slow but it would work I think. 

Thanks for all the help, if you have any further ideas let me know, it would be great if you could test it on your iphone sometime, or I can prepare a simple test program to demo the issue.

[Gareth Murfin]

ps I assume you meant Writer w = new OutputStreamWriter(out, "UTF-8");

[Gareth Murfin]

Oh my god... I just release a missing speech mark in the meta tag, it DOES work.. Im so dumb.. thanks for everything, made my day!!!! Sorry for all the red herrings.