Encoding in your Visual Studio project
Have you experienced problems in your Visual Studio projects that no matter which encoding you try to use in your pages <?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”iso-8859-1″?> for XML or <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=iso-8859-1″ /> but still you have problems solving swedish characters such as å, å and ö when posting information to external webservice etc.
Try and configure your application’s web.config file and add encoding to your globalization element and now things are working way better.
<system.web>
<globalization
fileEncoding=”iso-8859-1″
requestEncoding=”iso-8859-1″
responseEncoding=”iso-8859-1″
/>
</system.web>
This behavior to determine encoding is probably the reason why a WebForm intitially contains no information about encoding at all.
<%@ Page Language=”C#” AutoEventWireup=”true” CodeBehind=”WebForm1.aspx.cs” Inherits=”WebForm1″ %>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd“>
<html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml” >
<head runat=”server”>
<title>Untitled Page</title>
</head>
<body>
<form id=”form1″ runat=”server”>
<div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
More information can be found on Microsoft Website regarding Globalization
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