showing literal text as I want it ...

[Koen Hoorelbeke]

Hi there,

I want to display a euro-sign in some of my pages (in Labels, but also in f.e. an Object List). Since this is a IMode application, those characters have only one way of showing them across the various browsers and handsets: in my resulting html it should be there as : € ( & # 8 3 6 4 ; )

a.. If I do : lblTest.Text = "€" , the resulting html returns : € , which actually shows as the string I entered, and not the euro-sign I wanted to see.
b.. If I do : lblTest.Text = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode("€"); , the resulting html returns : â,¬ (some encoded character), where I would expected this would have been € (in this case the character shows correct on only a few handsets, not on all)
c.. If I do : Response.Write("€") , the resulting html returns as "€", which is as it should be, but it 's in the response.write, which I can't use to set the text of a label or any other attribute from f.e. an ObjectList.
How can this be done ? Is there some kind of equivalent to the HttpUtility, but then for mobile pages ?

Thanks in advance!!!

Greetingz,
Koen Hoorelbeke.

 

[Earl Beaman[MS]]

Hi Koen,

Unfortunately, all the text properties of both mobile and non-mobile text
controls(label, textbox, etc) are HTML encoded. Thus, entity references
such as this will not work.
Have you tried to change your culture and format the string?

Here's a small code example:

using System.Threading;
using System.Globalization;

private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
CultureInfo ci =new CultureInfo("nl-NL");
double MyDouble = 123456789;
//"c" is for currency
Response.Write(MyDouble.ToString("c"));
}

Let me know if this helps.

Thanks,
Earl Beaman
Internet Development Support
Visual InterDev/ASP Scripting/ASP.NET/MMIT
Microsoft Corp.
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