Decoding foreign language characters in url

Question

I am decoding characters in a URL by using HTTPUtility.URLDecode. Here are the characters I have to decode:

%26 = \"&\"
%28 = \"(\"
%29 = \")\"
%20 =

Answer 1

You should use an overload of HttpUtility.UrlDecode() that accepts an encoding:

HttpUtility.UrlDecode("%F3", Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1"))

This assumes it actually is using the ISO-8859-1 encoding. If it uses Windows-1250, you should use that. (These two are very similar, but they are not the same.)