Special Characters

[echoSwe]

Hi all...

A simple question about IIS 5 - IIS 6. How do you make the e-mail client:
MailMessage mail = new MailMessage();
using System.Web.Mail

use special characters in the mails? I'm from Sweden and we send emails using the characters å ä and ö. Post these and they simply don't show up. HELP! Quickly!

[glyakk]

Have you tried to use these 'character codes'? å ã õ

I am guessing you would need a script that could parse your documents, replacing the orgional character with the equivilent 'character code'.

[echoSwe]

Have you tried to use these 'character codes'? å ã õ

I am guessing you would need a script that could parse your documents, replacing the orgional character with the equivilent 'character code'.

Yeah, that would do the trick! Something like:

string body = Request.Form["body"];
for (int i = 0; i < body.length(); i++) {
switch (body.at[i])
{
case "å":
body.at[i] = "&auml;";
case :
...
Default:
...
}
}

I'm an old C++ programmer so I know the syntax is partly wrong - could anyone please help me with this? And doesn't the ; in the &auml; break the row in the code?
I need to refer to the sign... Is this how I do it?

//Henke

[rosland]

I'm not familiar with ASP, but it's quite easy to do in PHP.

I guess VB has some built in support for regular expresisons (at least rudimentary?)
If so, it's just to run the VB equivalent of 'str_replace' / 'ereg_replace' / 'preg_replace' or whatever have you.

The code won't be broken by the semicolons as long as they are defined as string values inside quotes (at least not in PHP). If they do, you could try to escape them (\; ).

[echoSwe]

I'm not familiar with ASP, but it's quite easy to do in PHP.

I guess VB has some built in support for regular expresisons (at least rudimentary?)
If so, it's just to run the VB equivalent of 'str_replace' / 'ereg_replace' / 'preg_replace' or whatever have you.

The code won't be broken by the semicolons as long as they are defined as string values inside quotes (at least not in PHP). If they do, you could try to escape them (\; ).

Yeah... Quite easy in C++ too... Just gotta know how to handle the strings. Gonna google some.

[echoSwe]

Wait... Or u can do something with the mail.bodyEncode ??

[echoSwe]

Fixed it.