RE: FN-FORUM: IIS changes escaped characters in URL... HELP!!!

date posted 30th January 2004 16:09

I would start by looking in the Region and language settings in control
panel.

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Sam Morgan

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Dave
Boulden
Sent: 30 January 2004 16:41
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: RE: FN-FORUM: IIS changes escaped characters in URL... HELP!!!


As it happens, that is exactly what I did on a previous installation... but
in that instance I only had the pound sign to worry about. There are several
accented characters in the Irish Language... and since it works on my own
installation, I'm thinking it must be just a setting in IIS (or the OS) or
maybe tied into the "code pages" installed on the server, and so would
rather find the setting than have to set up different code translation
tables for each installation I do (particularly since I'd have to do that in
Javascript, and I am loading enough on to the client end of things already).

Cheers,

Dave.

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-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL REMOVED] [EMAIL REMOVED] On Behalf Of Dan
Norcott
Sent: 30 January 2004 15:51
To: FN-FORUM / [EMAIL REMOVED]
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM: IIS changes escaped characters in URL... HELP!!!


> Dan,
> Thanks for replying, I should have explained it further. I am "URL
> Encoding" it when launching a new window with the URL shown. The window
that
> opens URL decodes the values. However, at some point after sending the URL
> to IIS, but before IIS returns the page, it has changed the %EF %BF (or
> whatever) codes to %3F (code for question mark character). It may be to do
> with the fact that the characters I'm sending in the url are vowels with
> acute accents (both upper and lower) plus the euro symbol (as this site
has
> to handle Irish Language and Euro currency).
> What's so strange is that it works perfectly on my WinXPPro SP1
> +IIS6 system.
>
> Hope someone can help!
>
> Dave.

Could you be filthy, and before you send the characters on their merry way,
replace them with some horrible code (like !#a#! or something) of your own?
Then when you get them, replace the horrible code back to the characters in
question, with the natty use of some replace statements?



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