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'toString().contains()' method unable to detect '˚' (degree symbol) inside a CharSequence

I have a CharSequence which contains two ˚ (degree) symbol inside it.

I have written an if statement which detects what's inside this CharSequence like this:

CharSequence name = "27°46'29.6"N 77°19'05.9"E";

if (name.toString().contains("˚") {
     Log.d("log", "˚ detected");
} else {
     Log.d("log", "˚ not detected");
}

The problem is that here ˚ detected is supposed to be printed out by the log statements, but what is getting printed out is ˚ not detected.

Why the ˚ is not getting detected?

Solution

  • You're checking 2 different characters, code point 176 vs 730

    if (name.toString().contains("°")) {