querystring values displays wrong

[lin73]

Hi

I try to write out a querystring value on my page, but the querystring contains a value like this....

mypage.aspx?K=l%F6v

and when I try to write that on my page with ..

Label1.Text = (Server.HtmlEncode(Request.QueryString("K")))

only 'lv' is written on the page when it really should have been löv (o with two dots over it). How can I get this to work?

 

[ca8msm]

Try using Server.URLEncode e.g.

    Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Load
        Response.Write("ö" & "<br>")
        Response.Write(Server.UrlEncode("ö") & "<br>")
        Response.Write(Server.UrlDecode("%c3%b6") & "<br>")
    End Sub

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[lin73]

Hi

Thanks for your reply, but I'm sorry to say that it doesn't work.... Any more ideas?

 

[ca8msm]

It does work. Did you try the example I posted?


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[lin73]

Hi

Yes I have, I tryed this...

Response.Write("UrlDecode = " & (Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("N")) & ("<br>")))

On a adress like this...

http://localhost/default4.aspx?N=N%F6jd

and the result is "Njd" and not "Nöjd" as I want it to be..


I even tryed to do a replace("%F6","ö") but its like it doesn't exsits...

 

[ca8msm]

Run my example and you'll see that the encoded value is different to the one that you are using.


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[lin73]

Your example give me this result on the page...

ö
%c3%b6
ö


So that part work, and then it should work with ..

Response.Write("UrlDecode = " & (Server.UrlDecode(Request.QueryString("N")) & ("<br>")))

But for some reason it doesn't. And I don't have a clue of why

 

[ca8msm]

Look at the encoded version of the character. Does your encoded version look the same as my encoded version?


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[lin73]

Yes if I do a Response.Write(Server.UrlEncode("ö") & "<br>")
on my page, that character is written ok to the page. Buif I try that or the UrlDecode on my querystring value nothing shows....

 

[ca8msm]

What does the querystring value look like with just a "ö" character in it?


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[lin73]

Then nothing is displayed...

 

[ca8msm]

What does the querystring value contain?


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[lin73]

default4.aspx?N=N%F6jd

 

[Tarwn]

I'm curious, why are you bothering to try and decode this at all? Before the value is placed in the Request.Querystring collection it should be decoded already. Have you tried just doing:
Label1.Text = Request.QueryString("K")

 

[ca8msm]

default4.aspx?N=N%F6jd

So if this is your querystring how is the encoded value possibly the same as mine? My example conatins "%c3%b6" and yours doesn't. I can't see how you possibly think these two are the same.


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[lin73]

Hi Tarwn

Yes I have, but then the swedish character ö (%F6) isn't displayed in my page. The querystring contains name of persons, and I need to add that name to a database, so it need to be acurate.

 

[lin73]

Hi Mark

Sorry, I was so into that the ö should be a %F6 that I missed your whole point. You are absolutly correct and everything works just as I wanted and you said.

Thank you very much for all help!