Save Repeater Control details as Excel file (Contains Chinese charactor) in ASP.NET C#

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Hi,

Am Saving the file in Excel format which contains Chinese letters using C#.NET.

The excel file saved successfully. But the Chinese words are messed up in excel file.

Code Used to Save is :-

C#

Response.Clear();
Response.Buffer = true;
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;filename=" Test.xls");
Response.Charset = "UTF-8"; 
     //Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;
     //Response.BinaryWrite(System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetPreamble());
Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw); 
comments.RenderControl(hw);
Response.Output.Write(sw.ToString());
Response.Flush();
Response.End();

It shows the exact output in website (脚宽 ). But after saving the file the excel file shows like this (è„šå®½) .

Ex: 脚宽 ----> è„šå®½

Help me to solve this issue.

Thank you.

Posted 25-Aug-15 1:43am

Jaison Joe

Updated 25-Aug-15 1:45am

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Solution 1

What are doing is not actually generating an XLS document. You are really creating an HTML file with a .xls extension. Excel is able to open these, but you do not have the functionality of a native Excel document.

You should look at using OpenXML, https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/bb448854.aspx[^]

Posted 25-Aug-15 2:44am

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Jaison Joe · Accepted Answer · 2015-08-26T18:00:00

I Found the solution for this. Now it works fine.

C#

Response.Clear();
Response.ClearContent();
Response.ClearHeaders();
Response.Charset = "utf-8";
Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment; filename=FileName.xls");
Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.Unicode;
Response.ContentType = "application/ms-excel";
Response.BinaryWrite(System.Text.Encoding.Unicode.GetPreamble());
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
HtmlTextWriter hw = new HtmlTextWriter(sw);
comments.RenderControl(hw);
Response.Output.Write(sw.ToString());
Response.Flush();
Response.End();

Thank you.