Hi all

I want to allow people to download vCards that I genereate on the fly. Since vCards is basically just a specially formatted text file, it's easy to read the required data from a database and simply change the Response.ContentType to "text/x-vCard" and then send the content of the file. It all works great, unless there’s a special chars in there like Ø, Æ and Å or similar. The content looks right up until I do a Response.Write(sb.ToString()), but when I open the file on my computer after it's finished downloading, the special chars are looking weird. So my guess is that the Response object does something to the encoding, but I can’t figure out how to disable it, please help.

I’ve included the code below from my Page_Load method. My .aspx is completely empty (besides the required <%@ Page ... directives).

Thanks, Egil.

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// Buffer response so that page is sent

// after processing is complete.

Response.BufferOutput = true;

// Surpress the HTTP Content-Type header

Response.Charset = null; // "utf-8"; //"iso-8859-2";

Response.HeaderEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

// Clear response stream

Response.Clear();

// Set the response mime type for vCard

Response.ContentType = "text/x-vCard";

// Build output

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

// Add headers

sb.AppendLine("BEGIN:VCARD");

sb.AppendLine("VERSION:2.1");

// Add content

// last and first name

sb.AppendLine(String.Format("N:{0};{1}", "Some last name", "Some first name"));

// full name

sb.AppendLine(String.Format("FN:{0} {1}", "Some first name", "Some last name").Trim());

// title

if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(p["title"])) {

    sb.AppendLine(String.Format("TITLE:{0}", "Some title"));

}

// phone

if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(p["telephoneNumber"])) {

    sb.AppendLine(String.Format("TEL;PREF:{0}", "Some phone number"));

}

// mobile

if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(p["mobile"])) {

    sb.AppendLine(String.Format("TEL;CELL;VOICE:{0}", "Some mobile number"));

}

// mail

if(!String.IsNullOrEmpty(p["mail"])) {

    sb.AppendLine(String.Format("EMAIL;PREF;INTERNET:{0}", "Some email"));

}

// add footers

sb.AppendLine("END:VCARD");

// Add string to output

Response.Write(sb.ToString());

// Send all currently buffered output to the client and stops execution of the page.

Response.End();