Android's TextView not showing specific digits

Question

I can't display specific numbers in a TextView. This happens when I am trying both to update the view's text programmaticaly or in just in the xml.

Here is the TextView as defined in a layout file,

<TextView
        android:layout_width="100dp"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:ellipsize="end"
        android:textAlignment="center"
        android:text="0"
        android:textColor="@color/primaryTextColor"
        android:textSize="48sp"
        app:layout_constraintBottom_toBottomOf="@+id/title"
        app:layout_constraintEnd_toEndOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="@+id/title"
        android:gravity="center_horizontal" />

I can also see that in the Android Studio editor. If I set text to 1, 2 and 3 I can see the number displayed. But if I set text to 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 then there's nothing.

What am I missing here?

Edit: I am adding two screenshots directly from the Android Studio's layout editor. Each screenshot represents the same textview with different values:

For text="123",

and now for text="142",

Note: The 4 seems to take a character's space in the TextView but it's not being displayed.

Debug textview value, by logging `textview.getText()`. Check logs what is textview current value. — Aditya, Mar 26 '20 at 14:24
I've done it! The text is what's expected to be @Heisenberg. — Themelis, Mar 26 '20 at 14:53
check this might help https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20144142/custom-font-not-showing-properly-some-characters — Mohammed Alaa, Mar 26 '20 at 15:03

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '20 at 17:57

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The problem was that the specific font-family was not able to display all of the digits.

answered Mar 26 '20 at 17:57

Themelis

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