change asp.net request/response encoding for one single page

Question

I have following settings in my web.config (unfortunately)

<globalization fileEncoding="Windows-1252" requestEncoding="Windows-1252" responseEncoding="Windows-1252" />

If I want to change one page's request encoding to UTF8, I could not just use <%@ Page RequestEncoding="utf-8" ResponseEncoding="utf-8" %> according to http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/39d1w2xf(v=vs.100).aspx because these properties simply do not exist.

If I add code to my page's code behind

Protected Sub Page_Init(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles Me.Init
    Me.Request.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8
End Sub

to force UTF8 as request encoding, it does not seem to work at all. But if I change web.config to use <globalization requestEncoding="UTF-8" responseEncoding="UTF-8" /> then it works fine for this page. But I don't want to change the setting globally.

Anybody has some suggestion?

krivtom · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-24 20:20:31Z

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You can use a location section in Web.config file to set specific properties for just single page or folder. In your case you should add configuration similar to this:

<configuration>
    <system.web>
        <globalization fileEncoding="Windows-1252" requestEncoding="Windows-1252" responseEncoding="Windows-1252" />
    </system.web>
    <location path="yourfile.aspx">
        <system.web>
            <globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" />
        </system.web>
    </location>
<configuration>

answered Oct 24, 2014 at 20:20

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hardywang Over a year ago

great solution, I almost forget the location.

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