Replacing Spanish Characters With The English Equivalent
Jul 22, 2010
Using vb.net 2005/asp.net I thought I had the issue solved: I have some strings with spanish characters such as "ñ" and I need to replace characters with their non-spanish equivalent, ex: the example I just mentioned would be changed to "n".
I am reading names from a file, some of them have special spanish characters like this: ñ
My end goal is to replace the special characters, however when I read the names into a string and then put a breakpoint and run my program in debug to see what I'm reading in my watch window shows a square in place of the special characters as if it's having problems reading the special characters.
EX:Muñoz from the file
is displayed
Mu�oz in my vb.net string
what I need to do so that my vb.net code and correctly read the special characters?
Why would a DropDownList switch from Spanish into English when one selects a new item in it? And how does one prevent that from happening?
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When you first come to this page after having chosen Spanish as your language, the dropdown is populated with the ListItems texts displaying -- as expected -- in Spanish. But when you go to select another item from the dropdown, all the items come back in English!
When you examine the dropdown before the AutoPostBack (both server-side and in FireBug), each ListItem is properly set, as in
Value="Some English" Text="Some Español" whereas **after** the PostBack, it looks like Value="Some English" Text="The same English"
Why is this happening, and what can I do to get it to keep the Spanish one sees before any PostBacks?
**Notes**:
1. The routine pointed to in `OnSelectedIndexChanged` is currently commented out, so the problem is not there.
2. I added `EnableViewState="true"` to the DropDownList, but that didn't make any difference, so I removed it.
3. As suggested below by Ichiban, I moved setting the `Thread.CurrentThread.CurrentUICulture` from `Page_Load` to `Page_Init()`, but that too didn't make any difference.
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