Question

I have made some code which exports some details of a journal article to a reference manager called Endnote

The format of which is a list of items like below (an author):

%A Schortgen Frédérique 

Unfortunately, I am having some encoding problems somewhere, as when endnote opens the file, this is what it makes of the above author:

Schortge Frédérique

I have frantically tried playing around with the encoding and stuff that I am outputting and I am at a loss, here is the code:

        Response.ContentType = _citation.ContentType;          string fileExtension = '';         if (_citation.GetFileExtension() != null)             fileExtension = '.' + _citation.GetFileExtension();          Response.AddHeader('content-disposition', 'attachment; filename=citation' + fileExtension);         Response.ContentType = _citation.GetFileReferrer();         Response.Charset = 'UTF-8';         Response.write(-snip-);         Response.End(); 

Answer 1

It looks like Endnote isn’t expecting UTF-8. Do you have details of what Endnote does expect? You may find that using Encoding.GetEncoding(1252) or Encoding.GetEncoding(28591) (which are Western codepage 1252 and ISO-8859-1 respectively) might work.

Btw, you’re setting Response.ContentType twice. That sounds unlikely to be a good thing.