Strange character transformations

9 Aug 2006 1:02 PM

CyberSpyders

Hi,

I have an ASP.Net website, which allows users to upload a file which is
then inserted into a database.

This is all fine until it reads a line with the string +Anu in it.
It transforms this to this char É» (which, if Googled for, is
described as Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH HOOK'
(U+027B) or, in Phonetics, as a 'Retroflex approximant'.)

Has anyone seen this behaviour before, and know how to stop it?
The code's simple - here's an example. The É» appears in the output
where the input is +Anu - it's transformed before I can touch it!

using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(strFile,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)) {
    // Read and display lines from the file until the end of the file is
reached.
    while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) {
        Response.Write(line);
    }
}

Regards

Adam

9 Aug 2006 2:16 PM

David Jessee

Looks like an encoding issue, alright.
Have you tried using the StreamReader constructor that does not require a
character encoding?

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"CyberSpyd***@gmail.com" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have an ASP.Net website, which allows users to upload a file which is
> then inserted into a database.
>
> This is all fine until it reads a line with the string +Anu in it.
> It transforms this to this char É» (which, if Googled for, is
> described as Unicode Character 'LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED R WITH HOOK'
> (U+027B) or, in Phonetics, as a 'Retroflex approximant'.)
>
> Has anyone seen this behaviour before, and know how to stop it?
> The code's simple - here's an example. The É» appears in the output
> where the input is +Anu - it's transformed before I can touch it!
>
> using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(strFile,
> System.Text.Encoding.UTF7)) {
>     // Read and display lines from the file until the end of the file is
> reached.
>     while ((line = sr.ReadLine()) != null) {
>         Response.Write(line);
>     }
> }
>
> Regards
>
> Adam
>
>