Windows Phone - Decode ASCII in string

Question

I have ASCII encoding characters in string. Something like this:

%7B%22video%22%3A%7B%22JSONinfo%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A212096%2C%22title

How can I decode it to "normal" string? I've tried to find an answer but I find solutions for byte[] of ASCII characters and so. I have an idea that I can replace all characters that starts with % by character which they represents but I think there is better aproach. And one more thing, solution must works for windows phone. Thanks

possible duplicate of [Converting a string of ASCII into normal string C#](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10349753/converting-a-string-of-ascii-into-normal-string-c-sharp) — eddie_cat, Sep 10 '14 at 19:15
Yea, It looks that he was looking for same what I am (I didn't find this question) but there isn't best answer for this and it's `HttpUtility.UrlDecode`. — Libor Zapletal, Sep 10 '14 at 19:23
Your question isn't phrased quite correctly then. What you have is a URL encoded string that you are trying to get the 'real' version of. — Paddy, Sep 10 '14 at 19:41

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 10 '14 at 19:16

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Use HttpUtility.UrlDecode(). For example, for the string you have given, the result is "{"video":{"JSONinfo":{"id":212096,"title"

answered Sep 10 '14 at 19:16

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score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 10 '14 at 19:21

You have may alternatives. Choose whichever works for WP

string s = "%7B%22video%22%3A%7B%22JSONinfo%22%3A%7B%22id%22%3A212096%2C%22title";
var s1 = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlDecode(s);
var s2 = System.Net.WebUtility.UrlDecode(s);
var s3 = System.Uri.UnescapeDataString(s);

Windows Phone - Decode ASCII in string

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