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Convert characters to web safe

I'm taking some input from the user using a standard <asp:textbox...

I'm creating a textfile from the contents of the textbox and save it as .html. This works fine, however if the user enters some dodgy characters, such as this: “cover story.”

This turns the html into looking like this: â€œcover story.â€

If i open the file up in notepad and then save it all is fixed.

How can i get around this issue?

lazyberezovsky

Man, if you do following:
using (StreamWriter writer = File.CreateText(Server.MapPath("~/test.html")))
writer.WriteLine(TextBox1.Text);

You will not receive encoding problems.
So, what is the way you are saving textbox text?

Carl Tawn

Can you show the code you are using to write to file? It sounds like a problem with the Encoding.

Type25

ASKER

Excuse the formatting

                do{
                
                    int randNumber = RandomNumber(minRand, maxRand);
                    htmlFilename = randNumber + "_article.html";

                    if (!File.Exists(articleLocation + htmlFilename))
                    {
                        // Create HTML File

                        TextWriter tw = new StreamWriter(articleLocation + htmlFilename);

                        tw.WriteLine(@"<html><title>" + articleTitle + "</title>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<meta name=""apple-mobile-web-app-capable"" content=""yes""><meta name = ""viewport"" content = ""initial-scale = 1.0,  user-scalable = no"">");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<style>body { width:310px; } .copy {font-family:Calibri,Arial; font-size:16px;background:url(../MagWatermarks/" + customerName + ".gif);  }h2 {font-family:Arial,Calibri;font-size:26px; font-weight:none; } .caption {color:Gray;font-size:13px;font-family:Arial;}</style>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<h2>" + articleTitle + "</h2>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<img src='" + picLocation + "iphone-" + articleImageURL + "' style='padding-left:2px'>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<span class=caption>" + caption + "</span>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<br><br><div class=copy>" + articleCopy + "</span>");
                        tw.WriteLine(@"<div style=""font-family:Calibri;width:304;height:30px;background:WhiteSmoke;padding-top:4px;font-family:Calibri;text-align:center""><a href='" + linkURL + "'>" + linkName + "</a></div>");

                        tw.Close();

                        done = true;

                    }

                }
                while (!done);

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lazyberezovsky

Again, I do not have any problems with encoding in this code.
What exactly causes encoding error (articleTiitle, caption, etc)? How do you get those values?

Type25

ASKER

It's articleCopy but i would presume it's the same for all of them.

ArticleCopy is the only text field that is multiline if that makes any difference.. ?

Retrieve the field like normal, articleCopy.Text

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Type25

ASKER

Spot on!

lazyberezovsky

Yes, that should work - File.CreateText do same thing about encoding.