asp.net XML: reading xml node and displaying encoded text

Question

A web service returns an xml string with french text in it. When printing the xml node

 xmlResponse.LoadXml(resp);
 XmlNode Text = xmlResponse.SelectSingleNode("/res/Text");
 sMessageText = Text.InnerText;

the text looks like this:

e.g. Le nom de le propri�taire de carte doit �tre entre 4 et 32 caract�res

How do I encode it? How do I show readable text.

Thank you

You can use the [System.Text.Encoding](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.text.encoding%28v=VS.100%29.aspx) to convert the text, but are you creating this XML or consuming from somewhere else? because you shouldn't need to do any conversion, if your xml have the correct encoding. — thiagoleite, Dec 01 '11 at 17:14
the xml response is coming from another system. I was just thinking maybe I have to capture the xml response some other way... currently I am using LoadXml. string resp = Calling webservice.... xmlResponse.LoadXml(resp); — Benk, Dec 01 '11 at 17:53

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '11 at 17:11

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You might have to set the cultureinfo of the control that is to use the string, i'm not sure of which property but you should assign it to CultureInfo("fr-FR");

answered Dec 01 '11 at 17:11

Joseph Le Brech

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score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

I dont think there is a method out of the box in XmlDocument class to load and convert the encoding. You can try the following, its from the link i gave you, the documentation for System.Text.Encoding:

  Encoding ascii = Encoding.ASCII;
  Encoding unicode = Encoding.Unicode;

  // Convert the string into a byte array.
  byte[] unicodeBytes = unicode.GetBytes(unicodeString);

  // Perform the conversion from one encoding to the other.
  byte[] asciiBytes = Encoding.Convert(unicode, ascii, unicodeBytes);

  // Convert the new byte[] into a char[] and then into a string.
  char[] asciiChars = new char[ascii.GetCharCount(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length)];
  ascii.GetChars(asciiBytes, 0, asciiBytes.Length, asciiChars, 0);
  string asciiString = new string(asciiChars);

You just need to change it for the encodings you're using. Also you might want to check this question, it has many answers that might help you.

asp.net XML: reading xml node and displaying encoded text

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