Encoding conversion from RSS feed chars.

Question

Hello,

I am trying to show a simple text RSS feed from a CodePlex project in a window.
My problem is that the feed text contains a lot of character sequences that looks like:

:
-
etc..

I know that they represent the punctuation and some special chars, with some kind of encoding, but I do not know how I can convert them back to simple ascii chars... I mean, without a switch/case covering each special char of course.

Thank you !

Sum-up: How can I convert "My name is : Aurelien" to "My name is : Aurelien" ?

Answer 1

As you can see by the question generated by your markup, those are HTML encoded characters.

All you have to do to decode them is use HttpUtility.HtmlDecode() to decode them.

If you're using .NET 4.0, you could also use System.Net.WebUtility.HtmlDecode() which would allow you to continue to target the Client Profile rather than the full framework.