Question

My ASP.net web application is getting a request from another application with a querystring named title.

Eg: http://www.abcdefg.com?title=&Aper%e7u+du+r%e9gime

Note: The query string is a french word having accent characters.
The text “Aperçu du régime” has encoded using “ISO-8859-15” encoding to produce the querystring text.

Problem
When i access the querystring using

Request.QueryString["title"]

I will get a decoded text which will not have the accent characters.

Eg: Aper�u du r�gime

So my question is, is there any method (eg:metadata) in ASP.Net to tell server either not
to decode or decode with a specific decoder Eg: “ISO-8859-15”

Once I am able to get the exactly same querystring text, i can use HttpUtility.UrlDecode to generate the actual french text.

Answer 1

You could use the <globalization> element in your web.config to specify the request encoding:

<globalization requestEncoding="iso-8859-15" />