Android - displaying fractions using unicode

Question

I am trying to make a fraction:

I am using this is a text view but it is not rendering very nicely:

"5"+'\u2044'+"9";

It does not turn the text into a nice fraction instead it sort of covers part of the numbers and squishes them together.

Any solutions or alternatives?

Answer 1

Try:

tv.setText(Html.fromHtml("<sup>5</sup>/<sub>9</sub>"));

Don't know if that will look good, but it's worth a shot. Otherwise, other than the single-glyph fractions like 1/2, I suspect you either will need to go without or render it yourself.