Unicode to HTML converter/cleaner

[Rob]

Is there a handy .NET call to convert a Unicode string to valid HTML so
sticking in an <p> inner HTML? Kind of thing converts "<" to &lt and
multiple spaces to &nbsp etc. I need to display unicode text from a database
on the web page.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Guest]

I suppose you need to smth like System.Text.Encoding.Convert and
HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode methods

Btw, all strings in .NET are unicode ones

 

[Guest]

I suppose you need to smth like System.Text.Encoding.Convert and
HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode methods

Btw, all strings in .NET are unicode ones

 

[=?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

Is there a handy .NET call to convert a Unicode string to valid HTML so
sticking in an <p> inner HTML? Kind of thing converts "<" to &lt and
multiple spaces to &nbsp etc. I need to display unicode text from a database
on the web page.

The Server.HtmlEncode method will encode special characters like &<>"
into html entities. It will not do anything to line breaks, tabs or
multiple spaces, though, so you have to replace them yourself.

 

[Rob]

I suppose you need to smth like System.Text.Encoding.Convert and

HttpServerUtility.HtmlEncode methods

Thanks - I'll have a look at those.

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Rob]

html entities. It will not do anything to line breaks, tabs or multiple
spaces, though, so you have to replace them yourself.

Thanks, I'll check them out. Not too difficult to Replace(Text, vbcrlf,
"<br>") afterwards. BTW, should I be doing "<br/>" these days?

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Göran Andersson]

Thanks, I'll check them out. Not too difficult to Replace(Text, vbcrlf,
"<br>") afterwards. BTW, should I be doing "<br/>" these days?

If you are using HTML, it's <br>. If you are using XHTML, it's <br/>.

If you are uncertain, look in the doctype tag at the top of the page. If
you don't have one, get one:

http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

If you are using HTML, it's <br>. If you are using XHTML, it's <br/>.

At the risk of extreme pedantry, it's <br />, not <br/>

 

[Rob]

At the risk of extreme pedantry, it's <br />, not <br/>

Yes I'd read that somewhere but then seen many places where the space was
been dropped.

Such as internet standards

Cheers, Rob.

 

[Mark Rae [MVP]]

Yes I'd read that somewhere but then seen many places where the space was
been dropped.

Of course you have - the Internet is littered with badly-formed markup...