Having problem with special characters when selecting a row in GridView?

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I'm working on a project in which I have to use special characters.
After adding some rows in tables, I fill a GridView with a stored procedure from three tables. Also, I can select a row and fill the textboxes and dropdown lists with that row.
The problem exists by the textboxes where the column of a row has an character and is not showing it properly for example:

C#

without spaces between symbols
 Ë = & # 203;
 ë = & # 235;
Ç = & # 199;
ç = & # 231;

My question is how to fix this when selecting a specific row to show in textboxes those kind of characters.
Thank you in advance for your reply.
Cheers.

Posted 20-Oct-15 12:20pm

dr_iton

Updated 20-Oct-15 12:27pm

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 20-Oct-15 20:19pm

Do you think there are some characters which are "special"? I never knew any...
—SA

ZurdoDev 20-Oct-15 20:44pm

I don't follow exactly where your problem is; however, you may benefit from using Server.HtmlEncode() to encode the data and Server.HtmlDecode() to decode.

dr_iton 21-Oct-15 2:45am

When I select a row in Grid View, a column of it has an word with a character I wrote above, for example Ç, and when I populate textboxes with those columns, these characters are not shown WYSIWYG in textbox, the special character Ç is converted in ("without spaces "& # 199).

dr_iton 21-Oct-15 4:28am

I fixed the problem using HttpUtility.HtmlDecode();
The problem now stands by the textbox where I put the password.
How to show the text from Grid View in a textbox with TextMode="Password"
Thank you again.

Sreekanth Mothukuru 21-Oct-15 6:54am

I think there is no way we could assign text like *** to a textbox of type password. By the way add your answer in the section below to mark it as "Answered".

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ZurdoDev · Accepted Answer · 2015-10-21T01:05:00

Solution 1

As mentioned in the comments, you can use the HtmlEncode and/or HtmlDecode() functions to handle special characters.

If textmode = password then you won't see the text. If you want to show the text, don't make textmode = password.

Posted 21-Oct-15 1:05am

ZurdoDev