ASP.NET MVC validation message encoding issue

Question

I have model with validation by data annotations:

public class MyModel 
{
    [Required(ErrorMessage = "Введите название")] //cyrillic (cap)
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

When I see this validation message in browser, it looks like that:

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I have <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> in head.

How can I fix that?

Answer 1

Make sure that your Razor templates (.cshtml/.vbhtml) files are UTF-8 encoded: in Visual Studio open your _Layout.cshtml and select File -> Save As and then Save with Encoding...

Then select Unicode (UTF-8 with signature):

Do the same for all your Razor templates and views.

Also if you are using HTML 5 you might use the shorter version of the meta tag:

<meta charset="utf-8">

Answer 2

Accidently I found how to fix it:

Project properties -> Application -> Assembly Information -> Neutral language

Answer 3

Andrei, I had the same problem. But your solution didn't work for me. I managed it only by saving cs-file in UTF-8 . In earlier version of VS I had no problem with ErrorMessages in russian language.