replacing strange characters pulled from db field

[vtxr1300]

I have a description field where people are putting in all kinds of non
html characters. When they're being pulled from the db, they're coming
out like • or  or any number of things. Does anyone have
a C# function written that would fix these? It's for a C# v1 project,
not v2. Thanks.

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

vtxr1300,

Use the static HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode methods on the HttpUtility
class in the System.Web namespace, located in System.Web.dll.

Hope this helps.
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I have a description field where people are putting in all kinds of non
html characters. When they're being pulled from the db, they're coming
out like â?¢ or  or any number of things. Does anyone have
a C# function written that would fix these? It's for a C# v1 project,
not v2. Thanks.

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

vtxr1300 <ca********@hotmail.comwrote:

I have a description field where people are putting in all kinds of non
html characters. When they're being pulled from the db, they're coming
out like â?¢ or  or any number of things. Does anyone have
a C# function written that would fix these? It's for a C# v1 project,
not v2. Thanks.

First you need to identify where the problem is.

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/d...ngunicode.html

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[vtxr1300]

Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP] wrote:

vtxr1300,

Use the static HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode methods on the HttpUtility
class in the System.Web namespace, located in System.Web.dll.

Hope this helps.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

I originally tried that, but it also encoded all of the html formatting
that was in the string. I need to preserve that. I'll look at Jon's
recommendation and see if I can make sense of that. Thanks.