Re: Special Characters in Query String

re:
> Obviously UTF-8 is to be preferred

Why ?



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"Kim Bach Petersen" <incognito@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Joerg Jooss wrote:
>
>>>strQuery = HttpUtility.UrlEncode(strQuery,
>>>System.Text.Encoding.Default)
>>
>> I suggest using a more web-friendly encoding than some Windows specific
>> default, e.g. ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8.
>
> Obviously UTF-8 is to be preferred and in most cases this is the actual default value
> returned by System.Text.Encoding.Default.
>
> Still, in my experience, one needs to use the default rather than explicitly choosing
> UTF-8 if the application is to run on _any_ webhotel without encountering encoding
> mismatch problems, at least with querystrings.
>
> Kim :o)


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