C# Special Characters in String Crashing Program

Question

I have a slight problem with a path:

"D:\\Music\\DJ Ti%C3%ABsto\\Tiesto\\Adagio For Strings (Spirit of London).mp3"
"D:\\Music\\Dj Tiësto\\Tiesto\\Adagio For Strings (Spirit of London).mp3"

Currently, when it sends that path to my Audio Library, it cannot open the path. (the reason for it crashing is trying to assign a -1 to a trackbar...but it's irrelevant).

So I'm wondering, is there anyway to prevent C# from switching special characters with %[code]? I've done a .Replace for "[" and "]", but I rather not have to look up every single special character, and add a line of code to prevent it. Is there anyway around this?

Answer 1

Call Uri.UnescapeDataString.

By the way, when putting paths in strings, you can put an @ sign before the string to tell the compiler not to process escape codes, like this: @"D:\Music\DJ Tiësto\Tiesto\Adagio For Strings (Spirit of London).mp3". This way, you don't need to double up every backslash.