Dealing with Funky Characters é

[ironhide1975]

How do you get characters that go into the database as one character come back correctly. For example, if I have someone type in a textbox

é

And it comes back as the character e with the notation on top of it. Is there anyway to have it reappear in the text box after a save as the way it was entered? Probably a replace command? Any help is appreciated.

 

[MrPlough69]

Hi Ironhide,

When you display the text back to the user you should be using the inbuilt Server.HtmlEncode() function, e.g.:

s_UserString = "é"

Response.Write( Server.HtmlEncode( s_UserString ) )

All user input should be encoded in this way when written back to reduce the possibility of cross site scripting attacks, otherwise they could supply a string such as <script>alert('hello')</script> to affect other users.

 

[ironhide1975]

Fantastic that worked, thank you.