Accented characters are not showing properly after copying from a text box

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I am using below code to copy text from some control.Please note text could be in Spanish or English.Later i am showing it up inside a rich text box.

Clipboard.Clear();
MyDocBodyControl.Range.Copy();
html = Convert.ToString(Clipboard.GetData(DataFormats.Html));

But when i am displaying them in rich text box,the accented characters are not showing properly.If i am using any other formats like Text,then i am getting proper accented characters.But i have to use HTML formats because i have some styles to be added with the copied text.

Any way to show the accented characters properly with HTML data format ?

try setting the character type to a unicode instead of utf8... — Tschallacka, Sep 21 '12 at 07:10
Hey Michael where i need to set character type ? While converting ? — Ppm, Sep 21 '12 at 07:35

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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Set a correct encoding? UTF-8/Unicode/... ? Also have a look on these topics: How to convert a Unicode character to its ASCII equivalent

edited May 23 '17 at 10:25

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answered Sep 21 '12 at 07:43

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Markus · Answer 2 · 2018-02-06T02:24:18.253

DataFormats.Html specification states it's encoded in UTF-8. But there's a bug in .NET 4 Framework and lower, and it actually reads as UTF-8 as Windows-1252.

You get allot of wrong encodings, which leading to funny/bad characters such as 'Å','â€¹','Å’','Å½','Å¡','Å“','Å¾','Å¸','Â','Â¡','Â¢','Â£','Â¤','Â¥','Â¦','Â§','Â¨','Â©'

For example '€' is wrongly encoded as 'â‚¬' in Windows-1252.

Full explanation here at this dedicated website Debugging Chart Mapping Windows-1252 Characters to UTF-8 Bytes to Latin-1 Characters

But by using the conversions tables you will not loose any UTF-8 characters. You can get the original pristine UTF-8 characters from DataFormats.Html. (Note: Ppm solutions defaults to ASCII on a fail and you loose encoding information!)

Also, Chrome adds Apple-converted-* characters that appear as for example 'Â ' from a clip, but claim to be removed.

Soln: Create a translation dictionary and search and replace.

Accented characters are not showing properly after copying from a text box

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