Hi,

I have some JavaScript that generates code people can paste in to their own websites and takes various user inputs. One input is text which I escape for url usage via JavaScript.

For example "Cortijo Marañón" becomes "Cortijo%20Mara%F1%F3n".

However when I access this query string server side via Request.QueryString I end up with "Cortijo Mara��n".

Anyone know how I can get around this issue?

Cheers,

Gavin

 Hi,

"%20" will be added every time in URI in the place of Space( __ )

 cuz the URL always define with words, it wont be with space, as i saw in my life

To solve this problem avoid adding spaces in URL.

Hi Ram, you've misunderstood my post...

The problem is not the spaces - these are getting encoded / decoded without issue as you can see in the example I gave.

The problem is with the ñó chars which are encoded client side by JavaScript to %F1%F3 which ASP.NET decodes server side to ��.

They are not getting decoded correctly!

For the real-life example check out this url:

http://www.yougodo.com/en/FullMap.aspx?lat=36.80241249444501&lng=-4.325523376464844&z=9&i=true&cm=2&ss=true&trgt=_blank&p=true&pc=FFFFFF&pd=Cortijo%20Mara%F1%F3n

Click the white map pin with the X and you'll see the problem caused by the bad decoding.

Seems I'm not alone in encountering this prob...

http://forums.asp.net/p/1442127/3268857.aspx

unfortunately there was no real solution given :(

Found the solution here: http://groups.google.com/group/DotNetDevelopment/browse_thread/thread/3bcdbf7d10014ebd

The trick is to use encodeURIComponent instead of escape in the JavaScript! :)