Question

I need to store messages in different languages in Http Header:

Response Headers

Cache-Control   private
Content-Type    text/html; charset=utf-8
Server  Microsoft-IIS/7.5
X-AspNetMvc-Version 3.0
X-Message-Type  Success
X-Message   <p>Token wysÅany</p>
X-AspNet-Version    4.0.30319
X-Powered-By    ASP.NET
Date    Wed, 18 May 2011 12:49:26 GMT
Content-Length  2

But, as you can see X-Message looses it’s formatting. it should be “Token wysłany”.
Help. thanks

EDIT:
this is what i have:

        if (filterContext.HttpContext.Request.IsAjaxRequest())
        {
            var viewData = filterContext.Controller.ViewData;
            var response = filterContext.HttpContext.Response;

            foreach (var messageType in Enum.GetNames(typeof(MessageType)))
            {
                var message = viewData.ContainsKey(messageType)
                                ? (ErrorMessageExtensions.ErrorMessage)viewData[messageType]
                                : null;
                if (message != null) // We store only one message in the http header. First message that comes wins.
                {
                    response.AddHeader("X-Message-Type", messageType);
                    response.AddHeader("X-Message", message.RenderAjax());
                    return;
                }
            }
        }

i’m trying to integrate messaging into my mvc app (like so): http://blogs.taiga.nl/martijn/2011/05/03/keep-your-users-informed-with-asp-net-mvc/ the only problem is that it needs to support multilanguages. What are some other options (or fixes for this solutions that would support other language characters)? thanks

Answer 1

I was having the same problem with this very messaging project by Martijn Boland. In my case I needed accented characters that we use in the Brazilian Portuguese language as: é á í ó ã õ, etc…

I did this to solve the problem:

response.AddHeader("X-Message", HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(message.ToString()));

and then in the view page (.cshtml) where you show the message:

function displayMessage(message, messageType)
{
    $("#messagewrapper").html('<div class="messagebox ' + messageType.toLowerCase() + '"></div>');

    $("#messagewrapper .messagebox").html(message);

    displayMessages();
}

See that I changed from

$("#messagewrapper .messagebox").text(message);

to

$("#messagewrapper .messagebox").html(message);

That’s because now we’re getting entity numbers ( HTML markup ) instead of plain text.

Doing so you won’t need that additional decode-jquery-plugin you mention in your answer.