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Android EditText InputFilter only ASCII symbols charset

In Java, is it possible to check if a String is only ASCII?

How do I use InputFilter to limit characters in an EditText in Android?

     try {
         CharsetEncoder charsetEncoder = Charset.forName("cp1251").newEncoder();
         input.setFilters(new InputFilter[]{new TemplateNameInputFilter(charsetEncoder)});
     } catch (RuntimeException e) {
     }

    private static class TemplateNameInputFilter implements InputFilter {
        private CharsetEncoder mCharsetEncoder;

        public TemplateNameInputFilter(CharsetEncoder charsetEncoder) {
            mCharsetEncoder = charsetEncoder;
        }

        @Override
        public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
                char c = source.charAt(i);
                if (mCharsetEncoder.canEncode(c))
                    sb.append(c);
            }
            if (source instanceof Spanned) {
                SpannableString sp = new SpannableString(sb);
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) source, start, sb.length(), null, sp, 0);
                return sp;
            } else {
                return sb;
            }
        }
    }
import java.nio.charset.Charset;
import java.nio.charset.CharsetEncoder;

public class StringUtils {

  static CharsetEncoder asciiEncoder = 
      Charset.forName("US-ASCII").newEncoder(); // or "ISO-8859-1" for ISO Latin 1

  public static boolean isPureAscii(String v) {
    return asciiEncoder.canEncode(v);
  }

  public static void main (String args[])
    throws Exception {

     String test = "Réal";
     System.out.println(test + " isPureAscii() : " + StringUtils.isPureAscii(test));
     test = "Real";
     System.out.println(test + " isPureAscii() : " + StringUtils.isPureAscii(test));

     /*
      * output :
      *   Réal isPureAscii() : false
      *   Real isPureAscii() : true
      */
  }
}
InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() {
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
            Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
        for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
            if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(source.charAt(i))) {
                return "";
            }
        }
        return null;
    }
};
edit.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { filter });
new InputFilter() {
    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end,
            Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {

        if (source instanceof SpannableStringBuilder) {
            SpannableStringBuilder sourceAsSpannableBuilder = (SpannableStringBuilder)source;
            for (int i = end - 1; i >= start; i--) { 
                char currentChar = source.charAt(i);
                 if (!Character.isLetterOrDigit(currentChar) && !Character.isSpaceChar(currentChar)) {    
                     sourceAsSpannableBuilder.delete(i, i+1);
                 }     
            }
            return source;
        } else {
            StringBuilder filteredStringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
            for (int i = start; i < end; i++) { 
                char currentChar = source.charAt(i);
                if (Character.isLetterOrDigit(currentChar) || Character.isSpaceChar(currentChar)) {    
                    filteredStringBuilder.append(currentChar);
                }     
            }
            return filteredStringBuilder.toString();
        }
    }
}
InputFilter filter = new InputFilter() {
    @Override
    public CharSequence filter(CharSequence source, int start, int end, Spanned dest, int dstart, int dend) {
        boolean keepOriginal = true;
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder(end - start);
        for (int i = start; i < end; i++) {
            char c = source.charAt(i);
            if (isCharAllowed(c)) // put your condition here
                sb.append(c);
            else
                keepOriginal = false;
        }
        if (keepOriginal)
            return null;
        else {
            if (source instanceof Spanned) {
                SpannableString sp = new SpannableString(sb);
                TextUtils.copySpansFrom((Spanned) source, start, sb.length(), null, sp, 0);
                return sp;
            } else {
                return sb;
            }           
        }
    }

    private boolean isCharAllowed(char c) {
        return Character.isLetterOrDigit(c) || Character.isSpaceChar(c);
    }
}
editText.setFilters(new InputFilter[] { filter });
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