"Harley" <harleyobrien%40hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> im working on an ASP.NET app in VB.NET and have problems with foreign
> characters.
> everything works ok, special characters are presented ok onscreen when
typed
> in the body of the page, using html encoding or not, i.e.
>
> &aacute and á both display an a with an acute symbol
>
> the problem come when is pass foreign characters using parameters and get
> the using Server.Params or Request.QueryString, they simply disappear.
>
> a call test.aspx?param=&aacute;a&eacute;e
>
> should show the param string as áaée, but it only shows it as ae.
>
> both pages are using utf-8 charset, but i also tryied without it, and
didnt
> work either...
>
> also tryied to encode the querystring using Server.HtmlEncode(string) and
> Server.URLEncode(string) before passing it, but nothing...
>
> my system is configured as any regular us machine, english os, english
> explorer, etc. nothing special there... any hint?
>
>

"Steve C. Orr, MCSD" <Steve@Orr.net> wrote in message
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> Have you tried setting it to use unicode?
> Here's more info on the subject:
>
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpguide/html/cpconencodingbasetypes.asp
>
> Also, have you checked the Globalization section of the web.config?
> Try changing it to something more like this:
>
> <!-- Web.Config Configuration File -->
>
> <configuration>
> <system.web>
> <customErrors mode="Off"/>
> <globalization
> fileEncoding="iso-8859-1"
> requestEncoding="iso-8859-1"
> responseEncoding="iso-8859-1"
> />
>
> </system.web>
>
> </configuration>
>
> --
> I hope this helps,
> Steve C. Orr, MCSD
> http://Steve.Orr.net
>
>
> "Harley" <harleyobrien%40hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:%23szTg6xUDHA.3312@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> > im working on an ASP.NET app in VB.NET and have problems with foreign
> > characters.
> > everything works ok, special characters are presented ok onscreen when
> typed
> > in the body of the page, using html encoding or not, i.e.
> >
> > &aacute and á both display an a with an acute symbol
> >
> > the problem come when is pass foreign characters using parameters and
get
> > the using Server.Params or Request.QueryString, they simply disappear.
> >
> > a call test.aspx?param=&aacute;a&eacute;e
> >
> > should show the param string as áaée, but it only shows it as ae.
> >
> > both pages are using utf-8 charset, but i also tryied without it, and
> didnt
> > work either...
> >
> > also tryied to encode the querystring using Server.HtmlEncode(string)
and
> > Server.URLEncode(string) before passing it, but nothing...
> >
> > my system is configured as any regular us machine, english os, english
> > explorer, etc. nothing special there... any hint?
> >
> >
>
>