asp URLEncode to aspx

[Sharon]

Hi all.
Url encoding a string on asp page and url decoding the string on aspx page,
non English characters are lost.
Encoding and decoding on the same page, asp or aspx, works fine.
Any idea?
Thanks.
Sharon.

 

[Sharon]

I don't understand exactly why, but saving the asp page as utf-8 did the
trick.
Sharon.

 

[Joerg Jooss]

I don't understand exactly why, but saving the asp page as utf-8 did
the trick.
Sharon.

That's because ASP.NET expects non-ASCII characters contained in query
strings to be UTF-8 encoded by default, whereas ASP used some 8 bit
encoding like Latin 1.

Cheers,

 

[Sharon]

Thanks for the explanation.
When requesting a query field it is automatically url decoded,
and the result string is missing data.
Is there a way to convert it to utf-8?
Sharon.

 

[Joerg Jooss]

Thanks for the explanation.
When requesting a query field it is automatically url decoded,
and the result string is missing data.
Is there a way to convert it to utf-8?
Sharon.

Sharon,

if the strings contained in Request.QueryString are missing characters,
the client was using a different encoding (non-recognized byte
sequences are simply dropped).

Either change the client's encoding (didn't you do that already
successfully?) or change the encoding used by ASP.NET (at least
requestEncoding in web.config).

Cheers,