Encoding utf-8 - reading

[M8KWR1]

Unsure if this is the correct place to ask this question, but i have this code

   Dim IPNResponseStream As Stream = strResponse.GetResponseStream
        Dim encode As Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding("utf-8")
        Dim readStream As New StreamReader(IPNResponseStream, encode)

        'read the response into a String variable "temp"
        temp = readStream.ReadToEnd

Which read the response and then i have some other code which splits it all down line by line.

Is there a simple way to convert the text to a readable manner, example 04%3A05%3A49+Dec+19%2C+2008+PST - should be a date, and the + symbol means a space.

Any help or guidance would be great, thanks in advance.

 

[huggyboy]

seems straightforward on the face of it - there have been a few of these kinds of questions lately

temp = temp.Replace("%3A", "/").Replace("+", " ").Replace("%2C", "?")

i dont know precisely the format you want out but i'm sure you get the drift

 

[huggyboy]

just checked what those characters are try this

TextBox3.Text = TextBox2.Text.Replace("%3A", ":").Replace("+", " ").Replace("%2C", ",")

hex3A is a ':' and hex2C is a ','

 

[M8KWR1]

I do have more things i will need to replace, does anyone know of website which displays them all to me

Many thanks for your help so far.

 

[huggyboy]

it is just the standard ascii codes as a hexnumber - i suppose you could write a routine to loop around all the possible %nn's i suppose

here's a website with the standard ascii codes

http://www.asciitable.com/

 

[RiverGuy]

Should be what you need here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kdcak6ye.aspx