ResourceManager.GetString使用错误的编码进行本地化

Question

I use ResourceManager to localize strings in my web forms application. The application supports en-us and sv-se . The strings are fetched correctly from the respective resource files, but when they are displayed, unicode characters come as junk values.

resources.sv-se.restext

...
ContactInfoFormatPrimary={0} (primär)
...

Output

Code that gets the resource:

ResourceManager resourceManager  = GetResourceManager(...)
...
text = resourceManager.GetString(resourceId);

I tried debugging the code, and the text returned is {0} (prim r)

What is causing the resource to decode incorrectly?

UPDATE:

I was able to use the same architecture in a console app and obtain the correct string, is there anything related to application configuration that i need to take care of?

Answer 1

Most likely you are not saving your resource text files ( .txt , .restext ) as UTF-8 or UTF-16 / Unicode . See the following paragraph from the MSDN documentation of Resgen.exe :

A text file that contains resources must be saved with UTF-8 or Unicode (UTF-16) encoding unless it contains only characters in the Basic Latin range (to U+007F). Resgen.exe removes extended ANSI characters when it processes a text file that is saved using ANSI encoding.

The easiest way to check the enconding of a text file is to open it in Notepad , click Save as... in the File menu and check what's displayed in the Encoding drop down in the lower right corner. It should be set to UTF-8 or Unicode .

To fix the encoding just select UTF-8 or Unicode in the Save as... dialog of Notepad and hit Save overwriting the original file.