DATASET does not retrieve Swedish characters from the Database using OleDb

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Hi,

When i try to retrieve swedish characters like Ö Å é from the database into the dataset, it is displayed as Ã– Ã… Ã© when I view the dataset values by debugging.

How do I correctly retrieve the data?

I have tried the following which didn't work:
1. In code behind:

VB

Dim currentCultureInfo As New CultureInfo("sv-SE")
        dataSet.Locale = currentCultureInfo

2. In web.config :

VB

<globalizatio<n fileEncoding="utf-8" requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" culture="sv-SE" uiCulture="en-US" />

Kindly help me sort this issue.
Thanks in Advance !!!

Posted 8-Nov-12 20:33pm

MikeRox89

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CafedeJamaica · Answer 1 · 2012-11-09T07:46:00

Solution 1

try UTF-32 since UTF-8 might not be able to represent all the characters

Posted 9-Nov-12 7:46am

CafedeJamaica

Maciej Los · Answer 2 · 2012-11-09T08:31:00

2 things:
1)
What kind of data type do you set for text fields? Probably you need NVARCHAR instead of VARCHAR

2)
You need to encode data...

Note:
To set the encoding for an individual page, set the RequestEncoding and ResponseEncoding attributes of the @ Page directive, as shown in the following example:
<![CDATA[<%@ Page RequestEncoding="utf-8" ResponseEncoding="utf-8" %>]]>

See related links:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39d1w2xf%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]
Using Character Encoding in ASP.NET[^]
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encodinginfo.codepage.aspx[^]

More about encoding and globalization for ASP.NET, you'll find here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/h6270d0z%28v=vs.100%29.aspx[^]