Copy text from a textbox in the website in the webbrowser control to navigate it with another browser control without losing foreign languages?

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I need to make it Unicode.

I want the text in the texbox of source of Google Translate to go to another Web Browser Control to search for pics of the text in Google Images...

What I have tried:

string query;

try
            {
                query = webBrowserMain.Document.GetElementById("source").GetAttribute("value").Replace(" ", "+");
            }
            catch { }

Posted 26-Feb-17 5:22am

john1990_1

Updated 27-Feb-17 11:42am

Graeme_Grant

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Graeme_Grant · Answer 1 · 2017-02-26T05:32:00

Solution 1

According to Microsoft documentation, Clipboard.SetText Method (String) (System.Windows)[^] uses UTF16

Posted 26-Feb-17 5:32am

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john1990_1 26-Feb-17 12:32pm

Clipboard is not what I'm talking about, it's about setting the textbox's content in a string called query and then navigating:
webBrowserPics.Navigate("google.com//search?site=&tbm=isch&q=" + query);

Graeme_Grant 26-Feb-17 13:50pm

yes, well, that was not clear in your question. You need to update it to say "WebBrowser Control", not "webbrowser" - the two are very different.

john1990_1 26-Feb-17 13:52pm

sorry, done, thx.

Graeme_Grant 26-Feb-17 14:07pm

Are the results readable? You may need to convert ASCII/UTF8 to UTF16/Unicode before using in the second WebBrowser control. This may help: .net - Unicode-to-string conversion in C# - Stack Overflow[^]

john1990_1 27-Feb-17 11:13am

The link you gave doesn't explain how to make:
query = webBrowserMain.Document.GetElementById("source").GetAttribute("value").Replace(" ", "+");
and make query string as Unicode and then making a Navigate() to the query as Unicode.

john1990_1 · Answer 2 · 2017-02-27T11:42:00

Solution 2

solved with:
WebUtility.UrlEncode

Posted 27-Feb-17 11:42am

john1990_1