.net, Word and the Irish Language

mewso

So I have a asp.net vb.net app that lets our users create content by either pasting/typing content into a scripted iframe thingy (a la fckeditor - it's actually an enhanced widgEditor for those interested) or they can browse to one of their word documents and upload that. In the background I save the word doc as html, open it and clean it using regular expressions and then insert the content into the iframe. This clean up has evolved and does the job pretty well.

Anyway some users are uploading Irish language stuff in word and if they paste it into the editable iframe I can catch all letters with an acute and convert it to a html code but with word forget about it. I can open the html file saved from word myself and see á for example but when I open this html in code it doesn't recognise it when the regex replace is run. So this must be an encoding issue but I'm at a loss as I've tried different encodings. I'm pretty much just going to give up and tell users if it's Irish content to just paste it in but maybe someone here has dealt with this problem.

Ginger

Just a couple of thoughts

One would be to set the CultureInfo to Ireland before opening the file to see if you can then open it correctly. It should be encoded UTF-8

That should allow the strings to be recognised correctly..

If its Docx you can just rename to .zip and open the xml file inside and parse away

mewso

Never heard of DocX but I'll try the culture angle. May provide an answer thanks.

Ginger

Docx is the word 2007 format