Search including swedish characters html-encoded

Question

We've got an EF6 MVC3 codeFirst-site. Our news consist of two entities. newsPost with the strings Header and Introduction and newsArticle with the string Body , all nvarchar max in db.

In newsPost a swedish ö is stored as an ö in DB, but in newsArticle we have both ö and ö stored (we're using ckEditor for the editing the body).

When the user sends a string searchword it's easy to search for matches in the posts, but for the articles I would like to search for both the searchword and the html-encoded searchword.

I guess I want to write something like this

var htmlEncodedSearchword= Html.Encode(searchword);
var postIds = context.News.Where(m => m.Body.Contains(searchword)||m.Body.Contains(HtmlEncodedSearchword)).OrderByDescending(x=>x.PublicDate).Select(x => x.PostId).ToList();

...but I can't figure out how to do.

Answer 1

There is a method WebUtility.HtmlEncode which does that