Umlaut in the Params of an ASP.NET page

[Reinier]

Hi all,

When I try to get the parameter from an ASP.NET page, all characters with a
umlaut disappear. So when I request the following URL:
http://www.MyWebsite.com/MyPage.aspx?Name="Müller"

and I use the following C# code:

string Name = Request.Params.Get("Name");

then the variable Name results in Mller, the ü disappears.

In the MyPage.aspx I use:

<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1">

Can someone explain why the characters with a umlaut disappear and how I
can support this characters in the aspx webpage?

Thanks a lot!

Regards,

Reinier.

[Craig Deelsnyder]

On Fri, 31 Mar 2006 09:23:03 -0600, Reinier <NO****@PROV.COM> wrote:

Hi all,

When I try to get the parameter from an ASP.NET page, all characters
with a
umlaut disappear. So when I request the following URL:
http://www.MyWebsite.com/MyPage.aspx?Name="Müller" Can someone explain why the characters with a umlaut disappear and how I
can support this characters in the aspx webpage?

Thanks a lot!

make sure you encode the URL before using it in a browser...the following
is what it looks like:

/WebForm1.aspx?name=M%c3%bcller

use Server.UrlEncode in the .NET code if needed there

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Craig
Microsoft MVP - ASP/ASP.NET