Convert text encoded with character referense ({) to unicode or uft-8

[Daniel Köster]

Is there someone who has got some tips on how to convert text encoded with
character referense ({) to unicode or uft-8 format using VB.net? Is
there a function or something that can help with the conversion?

To use a simple replace "this" with "that" is not an option since there are
som asian-texts that I need to convert as well. (chinese, thai and
japanese;
the replace list would be to large to handle)

What i want to do is to be able to compare a file coded with character
references (i.e. {) with a file coded with normal unicode characters
(i.e. ö,ä,å)

Best regards
Daniel

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Daniel Köster <[e-mail]> wrote:

Is there someone who has got some tips on how to convert text encoded with
character referense ({) to unicode or uft-8 format using VB.net? Is
there a function or something that can help with the conversion?

To use a simple replace "this" with "that" is not an option since there are
som asian-texts that I need to convert as well. (chinese, thai and
japanese;
the replace list would be to large to handle)

What i want to do is to be able to compare a file coded with character
references (i.e. {) with a file coded with normal unicode characters
(i.e. ö,ä,å)

Just do "normal" parsing to find the &#xxx; to start with, then use
Substring (or whatever) to get the xxx bit, parse it as an integer
(Int32.Parse or Convert.ToInt32) and cast the result to a character.

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[Mihai N.]

> Just do "normal" parsing to find the &#xxx; to start with, then use

Substring (or whatever) to get the xxx bit, parse it as an integer
(Int32.Parse or Convert.ToInt32) and cast the result to a character.

HttpUtility.HtmlDecode
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
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Mihai
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[Daniel Köster]

Thank you very much!!!

Best regards
Daniel
"Mihai N." <nm**************@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Just do "normal" parsing to find the &#xxx; to start with, then use
Substring (or whatever) to get the xxx bit, parse it as an integer
(Int32.Parse or Convert.ToInt32) and cast the result to a character.

HttpUtility.HtmlDecode
HttpUtility.HtmlEncode
--
Mihai
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Replace _year_ with _ to get the real email