# Is there an Android Mode 4.1 problem(characters are broken.) / solution?
**URL:** https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033
**Category:** Processing for Android
**Created:** [October 29, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033 "2019-10-29T22:32:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 29, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/1 "2019-10-29T22:32:25Z")
1. ‘Foreign language is not expressed.’
Even if you change the font, the characters are broken.
ex) Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc.
2. println() does not work.
Is there a solution?
Help. I need your help.
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### Author:  [@pauscha](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pauscha)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 9:51am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/2 "2019-10-30T09:51:42Z")
I got the same problem but with German umlauts…
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 12:06pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/3 "2019-10-30T12:06:27Z")
@pauscha
@akenaton
‘Foreign language is not expressed.’
Even if you change the font, the characters are broken.
ex) Korean, Japanese, Chinese, German etc.
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/4 "2019-10-30T14:47:14Z")
@pauscha
Have you ever found a solution?
No matter how I look and try, it doesn’t change.
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### Author:  [@hunterkiddo](https://discourse.processing.org/u/hunterkiddo)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/5 "2019-10-30T18:43:21Z")
confirmed println() is no longer putting output in the console. Would like an immediate fix because tracing errors is now cancer
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### Author:  [@pauscha](https://discourse.processing.org/u/pauscha)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/6 "2019-10-30T18:47:01Z")
Not yet. The problem occured the day before yesterday. The last time I tried to use umlauts everything worked fine, I already wondered what changed and caused the problem. Probably the change from Android mode v3 to v4. I’ll come back to this topic as soon as I found a solution.
Here is the [topic](https://discourse.processing.org/t/problem-with-german-umlauts-utf-8/14995) where I asked and got some ideas how to solve the problem
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 9:51pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/7 "2019-10-30T21:51:43Z")
@hunterkiddo
Thanks for the quick response
So is there no way right now?
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 9:53pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/8 "2019-10-30T21:53:52Z")
@pauscha
What I checked now is not simply an encoding problem.
1. I proceeded to ‘encoding’ but nothing changed.
2. Changes made to ‘Fonts.xml’ do not change.
The problem was not solved at this time.
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### Author:  [@GWAK](https://discourse.processing.org/u/GWAK)
#### Post date: [October 30, 2019, 11:47pm UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/9 "2019-10-30T23:47:11Z")
@pauscha
@hunterkiddo
1. ‘Foreign language is not expressed.’
> >
>
> String msg = “%ED%95%9C%EA%B8%80%20%EC%9D%B8%EC%BD%94%EB%94%A9%20%EC%9D%B4%EB%9D%BC%EB%84%A4~”;
> String msg2 = convertUTF8ToString(msg);
> text(msg2, x, y);
1. println() does not work.
> ```
> try {
> println(clearUserName);
> }catch(Exception e) {e.printStackTrace();}
>
> ```
This will solve it.
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### Author:  [@noel](https://discourse.processing.org/u/noel)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2019, 3:53am UTC](https://discourse.processing.org/t/is-there-an-android-mode-4-1-problem-characters-are-broken-solution/15033/10 "2019-10-31T03:53:33Z")
@GWAK hunterkiddo issued this on github, @codeanticode labeled it as “needs confirmation”.
Maybe you want to confirm.