[thelist] .NET [C#], DropDownList, HTMLEncode

[Robert Vreeland]

Sorry if this has already been suggested, but have you tried designating
your input as a verbatim string literal? You do so by putting an @ before
the leading  double quote like so:

DropDownList languageDropDownList = new DropDownList();

this.languageDropDownList.Items.Add(new
ListItem(&"Ελληνικά", "gr"));


The following is from the .net 1.1 sdk
<snip>
C# supports two forms of string literals: regular string literals and
verbatim string literals.

A regular string literal consists of zero or more characters enclosed in
double quotes, as in "hello", and may include both simple escape sequences
(such as \t for the tab character) and hexadecimal and Unicode escape
sequences.

A verbatim string literal consists of an @ character followed by a
double-quote character, zero or more characters, and a closing double-quote
character. A simple example is @"hello". In a verbatim string literal, the
characters between the delimiters are interpreted verbatim, the only
exception being a quote-escape-sequence. In particular, simple escape
sequences and hexadecimal and Unicode escape sequences are not processed in
verbatim string literals. A verbatim string literal may span multiple lines.

</snip>

Hope this helps.
Sincerely,
Robert Vreeland

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Subject: Re: [thelist] .NET [C#], DropDownList, HTMLEncode

Matt

[..]

> The thought is that it is *not* being treated as if it were 
> HTML-encoded. It is being treated as a literal string. So, if you type 
> "&amp;", you will get "&amp;" just as if you had typed "asdf" and got 
> "asdf".

To clarify: the input string *is* "&#241;" the ouput string *is*
"&amp;#241;". What I require is that the input string *should be* "&#241;"
and the output string *should be* "&#241;". Hence my belief that somewhere
in the process of assigning the string value to a DropDownList item via a
ListItem object, an HTML encoding method is being executed on the string.

Apologies, either my powers of expression or my powers of comprehension have
not been what they should have been over the past couple of days :)

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