Drag'n'Dropping text into TextBox and special characters

Question

I made drag'n'drop support for TextBox control, but here are some problems with charsets (on special characters).

If I drop that text on my control:

Cześć, chciałbym przetestować specjalne polskie znaki.

It becomes:

CzeĹ›Ä‡, chciaĹ‚bym przetestowaÄ‡ specjalne polskie znaki.

Here is my code for DragDrop:

private void textBox_DragDrop(object sender, DragEventArgs e)
{
    if (e.Data.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text))
    {
        TextBox txt = (TextBox)sender;
        txt.Text = (string)e.Data.GetData(DataFormats.Text);;
    }
    else e.Effect = DragDropEffects.None;
}

When I paste data, everything seems to be ok.

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 25 '12 at 13:21

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Have you tried DataFormats.UnicodeText instead of DataFormats.Text?

answered Feb 25 '12 at 13:21

Yuriy Guts

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What is the source of the drag'n'drop operation (i.e. where are you dragging the data from)? The issue might be that the source uses different encoding than the target. – Yuriy Guts Feb 25 '12 at 13:32
Did you change `DataFormats.Text` to `DataFormats.UnicodeText` in **both** places (you have two occurrences of that in your code)? I have reproduced this issue using Chrome but replacing Text with UnicodeText in both lines helped me. – Yuriy Guts Feb 25 '12 at 13:55

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 25 '12 at 13:37

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from this post (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/420659/unicode-characters-not-showing-in-system-windows-forms-textbox)

Try using RichTextBox instead of checkbox and see if it works then - that way you know that you at least read data properly.

answered Feb 25 '12 at 13:37

user1227804

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Drag'n'Dropping text into TextBox and special characters

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