rupee symbol in android

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i display rupee in android using below code

Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Rupee_Foradian.ttf");
errormsgtodisplay.setTypeface(face);
errormsgtodisplay.setText("Your Cash Balance is " + getResources().getString(R.string.rs)+otherinformation);

it works fine but it also changes font style of text Your Cash Balance is i want that text should use previous font style not that of Rupee_Foradian.ttf

Posted 30-Nov-13 1:33am

garav kumar mishra

Updated 10-Mar-16 19:32pm

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Tharaka MTR · Answer 1 · 2013-11-30T05:30:00

Solution 1

Why don't you use the Unicode characters?

use <string> resource with Unicode.
http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/resources/string-resource.html[^]

you can use either

XML

<string name="rupee">\u20B9</string>

or

XML

<string name="rupee">\u20A8</string>

Posted 30-Nov-13 5:30am

Tharaka MTR

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garav kumar mishra 1-Dec-13 23:34pm

but the above solution doesn't works for some mobile.
Not working on mine

Uroosa Sehar · Answer 2 · 2016-03-10T19:32:00

Solution 3

use any other second argument in your code
Typeface face = Typeface.createFromAsset(getAssets(), "Rupee_Foradian.ttf");

Posted 10-Mar-16 19:32pm

Uroosa Sehar

The Prateek · Answer 3 · 2016-03-09T00:04:00

Solution 2

if above ones didn't work. try this

Java

String string = "\u20B9";
byte[] utf8 = null;
utf8 = string.getBytes("UTF-8");
string = new String(utf8, "UTF-8");

Thank me later

Posted 9-Mar-16 0:04am

The Prateek