Question

I am trying to read a LimeSurvey table using Linq to entities. My problem is that LimeSurvey stores strings in UTF8 and .Net doesn’t like it…

So, i’ve got a simple function to list all my surveys, how can i tell Linq to read the strings in UTF8 format?

My function:

public static List<Lime_Surveys> List()
    {
        using (LimeSurveyEntities db = new LimeSurveyEntities())
        {

            IQueryable<Lime_Surveys> list = db.Lime_Surveys.Include("Lime_Surveys_LanguageSettings");

            return list.ToList();
        }
    }

Answer 1

You need to change the encoding of the string you read using

Encoding.UTF8.GetString(Encoding.Default.GetBytes(yourstring))

Check out this answer: Get correct output from UTF-8 stored in VarChar using Entity Framework or Linq2SQL?