Question

I have a database in ISO-8859-2 format, but I need to create XML in UTF-8. This means that I must encode the database before printing in UTF-8. I know very little about ASP.Net.

In PHP I would do something like this:

db_connect(); mysql_query("SET NAMES 'UTF8'"); mysql_query("SET character_set_client='UTF8'"); 

This is my ASP.Net code for database connection:

 'CONNECTION TO DATABASE  dim dbconn,sql,dbcomm  dbconn=New OleDbConnection("Provider=Microsoft.Jet.OLEDB.4.0;" & _       "Data Source=" & Server.MapPath("../baze/test.mdb"))   dbconn.Open()             sql="SELECT * FROM nekretnine, tipovinekretnina WHERE nekretnine.idtipnekretnine = tipovinekretnina.idtipnekretnine ORDER BY nekretnine.idnekretnine"  dbcomm=New OleDbCommand(sql,dbconn)  dbread=dbcomm.ExecuteReader()               while dbread.Read() 

Where and how do I encode to UTF-8?

Answer 1

Assuming you have a value string in str, this is the pure-.NET way of doing this.

var encoding = System.Text.Encoding.GetEncoding('iso-8859-2');  var bytes = System.Text.Encoding.Convert(encoding, System.Text.Encoding.Default, encoding.GetBytes(str));  var newString = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(bytes);