Unicode and newline characters in XML text sond via Web Service

[Krzysztof Fink-Finowicki via .NET 247]

Hi,

I fill-in text in TEXTAREA tag on HTML page, then send its content via content of XML element parameter sent through WebService function from JavaScript.

On client side, I can read my text in debugger as:

<Text>?Omr?de?
?hj?lp?</Text>

(with literal newline).

On server side, transferred content of XML tag looks as:

<Text>???Omr??de???
???hj??lp???</Text>

(the newline character is displayed in Notepad as single square).

Server side text is then stored to database.

This effect causes:
- differences between client and server texts regarding newline characters;
- loss of national characters.

How and where should I set encoding parameters for Web Service transmission to overcome these problems ?


Please help.

Krzysztof

 

[Dan Rogers]

Hi,

I think you may need to consider that cross-language applications based on
the XML standard will need to work with encoded characters as Unicode.
This is how these productions are handled in XML - so you need to add a
layer to your application's rendering logic to urlDecode the strings you
get back - especially if you're processing the XML manually.

I hope this helps

Dan Rogers
Microsoft Corporation
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Hi,

I fill-in text in TEXTAREA tag on HTML page, then send its content via

content of XML element parameter sent through WebService function from
JavaScript.

On client side, I can read my text in debugger as:

<Text>?Omr?de?
?hj?lp?</Text>

(with literal newline).

On server side, transferred content of XML tag looks as:

<Text>???Omr??de???
???hj??lp???</Text>

(the newline character is displayed in Notepad as single square).

Server side text is then stored to database.

This effect causes:
- differences between client and server texts regarding newline characters;
- loss of national characters.

How and where should I set encoding parameters for Web Service

transmission to overcome these problems ?