# How to turn on unicode in Android mode?

**URL:** <https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504>\
**Category:** Processing for Android\
**Created:** [July 4, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504 "2019-07-04T18:36:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![LoliProcessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@LoliProcessor](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LoliProcessor)\
**Post date:** [July 4, 2019, 6:36pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504/1 "2019-07-04T18:36:42Z")

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Unicode characters get scrambled when rendered on my mobile device.  
How do I activate unicode for the application?

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**Author:** ![KTibow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KTibow](https://discourse.processing.org/u/KTibow)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 3:17am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504/2 "2019-07-05T03:17:07Z")

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Can you give a picture or screenshot of the scrambled characters, and share your code?

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**Author:** ![LoliProcessor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6a8cbe/32.png) [@LoliProcessor](https://discourse.processing.org/u/LoliProcessor)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2019, 4:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504/3 "2019-07-10T16:53:59Z")

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The default font doesn’t seem to include the necessary characters. Using an all unicode glyphs font has solved my problem.

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**Author:** ![KTibow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KTibow](https://discourse.processing.org/u/KTibow)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2019, 2:35pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/how-to-turn-on-unicode-in-android-mode/12504/4 "2019-07-13T14:35:07Z")

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Great. I’m glad that you identified the problem!