Server.HtmlDecode("‘") does not work

[emailmygroup]

I am trying to decode character &#145#; but it is not working. Anybody
knows how to decode this character?

 

[George Ter-Saakov]

What to you mean by decode. It's not coded.

‘ is an UTF-8 representation of the symbol.
You can use Decoder utf8Decoder = Encoding.UTF8.GetDecoder();
to work with it or convert to Unicode. But you will not fit it into ASCII
table.


George.

 

[bruce barker]

what do mean by not working? it will creates a 1 char string with an
ascii value of 145 (which is unprintable)


-- bruce (sqlwork.com)

 

[emailmygroup]

From URL
http://www.eggheadcafe.com/tutorial...74-9130-3210625e675c/html-entities-class.aspx

I can say that ‘ is a printable character quote. Here is my
program and its output

Asc(Server.HtmlDecode("’")) ' Output = 63 = "?"
Asc(Server.HtmlDecode("G")) ' Output = 71 = "G"
Asc(Server.HtmlDecode("“")) 'Output = 63 ="?"

146 represents single quote and 147 represents double quote. so my
question is am I missing anything?

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:
!> 146 represents single quote and 147 represents double quote. so my
!> question is am I missing anything?

Yes, you are missing 145...

What does Asc(Server.HtmlDecode("‘")) return ?




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[emailmygroup]

Asc(Server.HtmlDecode("‘")) ' Output = 63 = "?"

 

[emailmygroup]

can anybody help me???

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

I *reaally* don't understand your question.

When I process Server.HTMLDecode("‘")

....what I get as a result is : '

See the sample at : http://asp.net.do/test/HTMLencode.aspx

It's the LAST label in the list, after %3f ...and the code is :

im txtenc2 as String = Server.HTMLDecode("‘")
lblMessage6.Text = txtenc2

It seems to render OK in that test. What is the problem you're seeing ?




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[emailmygroup]

I *reaally* don't understand your question.

When I process Server.HTMLDecode("‘")

...what I get as a result is : '

See the sample at :http://asp.net.do/test/HTMLencode.aspx

It's the LAST label in the list, after %3f ...and the code is :

im txtenc2 as String = Server.HTMLDecode("‘")
lblMessage6.Text = txtenc2

When I write Server.HTMLDecode("‘") output is as follows

Output: (not printable character so no output)
length of string: 1
Ascii value of character using Asc function: 63

Do I need to change any settings anywhere? In my web.config file

<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />

Thanks

 

[=?windows-1252?Q?G=F6ran_Andersson?=]

I am trying to decode character &#145#; but it is not working. Anybody
knows how to decode this character?

It's not working, because ‘ is not a valid html entity.

According to all these sources, there is no html entity for character
codes from 127 through 159:

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/html-spec/html-spec_13.html
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/sgml/entities.html

You can use these htlm entities for quotes:

&lsquo; ‘ left single quote
&rsquo; ’ right single quote
&sbquo; ‚ single low-9 quote
&ldquo; “ left double quote
&rdquo; ” right double quote
&bdquo; „ double low-9 quote

according to:
http://www.webmonkey.com/reference/special_characters/

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:
!> Do I need to change any settings anywhere? In my web.config file
!> <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />

I'm using :

<globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1" fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" />

Can you test with those settings...and post back the result ?



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I *reaally* don't understand your question.

When I process Server.HTMLDecode("‘")

...what I get as a result is : '

See the sample at :http://asp.net.do/test/HTMLencode.aspx

It's the LAST label in the list, after %3f ...and the code is :

im txtenc2 as String = Server.HTMLDecode("‘")
lblMessage6.Text = txtenc2

When I write Server.HTMLDecode("‘") output is as follows

Output: (not printable character so no output)
length of string: 1
Ascii value of character using Asc function: 63

Do I need to change any settings anywhere? In my web.config file

<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />

Thanks

 

[Juan T. Llibre]

re:
!> It's not working, because ‘ is not a valid html entity.

Goran, can you explain why the sample at :
http://asp.net.do/test/HTMLencode.aspx works if ("‘") isn't valid ?

Why would Server.HTMLDecode("‘") be translated to " ' " ?




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[emailmygroup]

I changed web.config as following

<globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-1"
responseEncoding="iso-8859-1" fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" />


but no luck.