Problem with swedish characters åäö in webclient

05-08-2009 6:19 AM |

I have a problem with saving data. I use a webclient to communicate with the server, and each time I send something with a å ä or ö in it, that character is converted when it reaches the server. I've tried setting webClient.Encoding but there aren't that many alternatives, and nothing works. How do I solve this?

Re: Problem with swedish characters åäö in webclient

05-08-2009 10:54 AM |

 Have you tried using HttpUtility.HtmlEncode()? I know thats not exactly what its for but at least the data will be preserved during transfer.

Alternatively it may be worth while to look into the Encoding class (System.text.Encoding). I haven't used it before but converting a compatible format may work.

Re: Problem with swedish characters åäö in webclient

05-08-2009 1:15 PM |

That's basically because of the Encoding. Do those characters exist in the encoding used?

Re: Re: Problem with swedish characters åäö in webclient

05-15-2009 4:32 AM |

Could someone post an example of this encoding and decoding? I can't seem to make it work.

Code at client side: 

string wUrl = String.Format("caller={0}&proc={1}", wCaller, wProc);
wUrl = "http://localhost:50899/slproxy.aspx?" + wUrl;          

webClient.DownloadStringCompleted += new DownloadStringCompletedEventHandler(webclient_DownloadStringCompleted);
webClient.DownloadStringAsync(new Uri(wUrl, UriKind.Absolute));

 Code at server side:

Request.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;
string caller = Request.QueryString.Get("caller");
string proc = Request.QueryString.Get("proc");