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ASP.net C# - Pulling HTML from Database returns character: Â

Started by Immortalarena , Jun 24 2013 11:12 AM

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Immortalarena
Posted 24 June 2013 - 11:12 AM

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I'm learning ASP.net for a few weeks, and have begun converting my ASP classic sites to .net. I store the pages in an MSSQL database using CKEditor to generate the HTML.

When I pull the value in a classic record set it prints fine on the screen, but in ASP.net it's pulling the   values as "Â".

I'm storing the record in a DataTable, which is where I can see the result has the strange character.
pageTableAdapter tA = new pageTableAdapter();
DataTable dt = tA.GetPageByPageName(pageName);

Is there something I should adjust on my TableAdapter or DataTable to read the HTML correctly? I'm trying to store it in a String and write it to the page.

Any help or Advice is greatly appreciated.

Thanks!
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Ax238
Posted 02 July 2013 - 10:27 PM

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It seems to be a character encoding issue. Try adding this to the <head> section:
<meta charset="utf-8">

Regards,

Ax
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Immortalarena
Posted 03 July 2013 - 08:52 AM

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I've tried the shorthand HTML 5 method you show as well as
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
with no change... very odd.
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Posted 15 July 2013 - 12:00 AM

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I still think there's an encoding issue, take a look here:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/893663
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