problem with passing string with special character

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Bob - 19 Mar 2008 20:35 GMT

Hi,

I want to pass a string with a special character (ê).
The problem is that the starting string "enquête" arrives as "enqu".

Why is this and how to solve that?
Thanks
Bob

Dim enqna As String
enqna = "enquête"
Response.Redirect(String.Format("next.aspx?Item0={0}", enqna))

next.aspx:
---------
enqna = Request.QueryString("Item0")

=> this gives: enqu

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Cowboy (Gregory A. Beamer) - 19 Mar 2008 21:00 GMT

You need to URL encode the string before adding to Response.Redirect.

HttpUtility.UrlEncode(enqna)

You will see ê as a UNIX char. Not sure what, but it will be in the format
&###; so the url will be:

http://mysite.com/next.aspx?Item0=enqu&###;te

with the ### being some number

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bruce barker - 19 Mar 2008 21:11 GMT

uri's (url) only support a subset of ascii, no international characters. you
will to urlencode the characters, and be sure to use the correct encoding on
the decode side. see HttpUtility.UrlEncode

also see:

ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/rfc2396.txt

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

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Bob - 19 Mar 2008 23:18 GMT

Thanks

> uri's (url) only support a subset of ascii, no international characters.
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