UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding

[John C.]

Hi, I've tried using System.Web.Http Utility.UrlEnco de("é") with each
of the possible encodings ASCII, Unicode, UTF7, UTF8 but none of these
gives what I want: %e9. And so on for the other French characters. Am I
missing something here?

[Martin Honnen]

Re: UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding



John C. wrote:
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> Hi, I've tried using System.Web.Http Utility.UrlEnco de("é") with each
> of the possible encodings ASCII, Unicode, UTF7, UTF8 but none of these
> gives what I want: %e9. And so on for the other French characters. Am I
> missing something here?[/color]

Use ISO-8859-1 as the encoding name. Or Windows-1252. e.g.
HttpUtility.Url Encode("é",
System.Text.Enc oding.GetEncodi ng("ISO-8859-1"))


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[Joerg Jooss]

Re: UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding

Thus wrote John C.,
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> Hi, I've tried using System.Web.Http Utility.UrlEnco de("é") with each
> of the possible encodings ASCII, Unicode, UTF7, UTF8 but none of these
> gives what I want: %e9. And so on for the other French characters. Am
> I missing something here?[/color]

Yes, the correct encoding ;-)

ISO-8859-15 or Windows-1252 is the encoding you're probably looking for:

Encoding latin9 = Encoding.GetEnc oding("iso-8859-15");
string encodedUrl = HttpUtility.Url Encode(url, latin9);

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
news-reply@joergjoos s.de

[Joerg Jooss]

Re: UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding

Thus wrote Martin,
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> Use ISO-8859-1 as the encoding name. Or Windows-1252. e.g.
> HttpUtility.Url Encode("é",
> System.Text.Enc oding.GetEncodi ng("ISO-8859-1"))[/color]

Some fun encoding trivia: There are two french glyphs that don't exist in
ISO-8859-1: The uppercase and lowercase "oe" ligature (Unicode \u0152 and
\u0153). That's why I've proposed Latin 9 instead in my other post. If it's
all about "é", Latin 1 is OK :-)

Cheers,
--
Joerg Jooss
news-reply@joergjoos s.de

[Laurent Bugnion]

Re: UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding

Off topic ;-)

Martin Honnen wrote:

Martin, you're the Martin Honnen who was (and maybe still is, I lost
contact lately) on comp.lang.javas cript, I suppose. Nice to see you here
too.

Friendly greetings,
Laurent
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[John C.]

Re: UrlEncode French characters - wrong encoding

Thank you so much to everyone who replied. That fixed my problem right
away!