Display accented characters in webview

My app does not display accented characters correctly. I looked into this last year but was not able to find a solution. I've been digging around but still have not found a solution. I've supplied a screen shot that shows what happens when the user enters "London Château" in an EditText field which is loaded into a WebView when the button is clicked. The accented character "â" does not translate as expected. It translates to "Ãç", "London ChÃçteau". Would love to get a solution, Thanks in advance. I have supplied code to demonstrate: ``` public class MainActivity extends Activity { private WebView webView; private EditText edittext_1; private Button buttonUpdate; @Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webview_summary); webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true); edittext_1 = (EditText) findViewById(R.id.editText_1); buttonUpdate = (Button) findViewById(R.id.button_update); buttonUpdate.setOnClickListener(new View.OnClickListener() { public void onClick(View v) { String s = edittext_1.getText().toString(); webView.loadData(s, "text/html", "utf-8"); } }); } @Override public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) { getMenuInflater().inflate(R.menu.activity_main, menu); return true; } } ``` xml: ``` <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" android:orientation="vertical" > <WebView android:id="@+id/webview_summary" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="0px" android:layout_weight=".85" /> <LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android" android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="0px" android:layout_weight=".15" > <RelativeLayout android:layout_width="fill_parent" android:layout_height="fill_parent" > <EditText android:id="@+id/editText_1" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_centerHorizontal="true" android:layout_marginLeft="25dp" android:layout_marginRight="25dp" android:hint="text" android:minWidth="100dp" android:text="" /> <Button android:id="@+id/button_update" android:layout_width="wrap_content" android:layout_height="wrap_content" android:layout_toLeftOf="@id/editText_1" android:padding="10dp" /> </RelativeLayout> </LinearLayout> </LinearLayout> ```