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Change the character set that the Web page uses

1. In the Web.config file of your ASP.NET Web Application project, locate the <globalization> element. Note the value for the requestEncoding attribute of the <globalization> element.
2. In your ASP Web page or in your HTML Web page, locate the following code:

   <title>PageTitle</title>

   Note PageTitle is a placeholder for the title of your Web page.
3. Add the following code after the code that you located in the previous step.
   
   Note In the following code, replace CharacterSet with the value that you noted in step 1.

   <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=CharacterSet">

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Change the character set that the Web form uses

1. Note the character set that the Web page uses. If you do not know the character set that the Web page uses, locate the META element for the Web page, and then note the value for the charset property of the associated CONTENT attribute.
   
   Note The META element is an optional element. Therefore, your Web page may not contain a META element. In such a scenario, this resolution may not resolve the problem.
2. In the Web.config file of your ASP.NET Web Application project, locate the <globalization> element.
3. Change the values for the requestEncoding attribute and the responseEncoding attribute to the value that you noted in step 1. If you did not note any value in step 1, change the values for the requestEncoding attribute and the responseEncoding attribute to typical values (such as "ISO-8859-1" and "Windows-1252").

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Steps to reproduce the behavior

1. Start Microsoft Visual Studio .NET.
2. Use Microsoft Visual Basic .NET to create an ASP.NET Web Application project. By default, the WebForm1.aspx file is created.
3. Add a Label control to the WebForm1 Web form.
4. Add the following code to the Page_Load event handler for the WebForm1 Web form:

   Label1.Text = Request.Form("postdata")

5. Add an HTML Web page to the project.
6. In Solution Explorer, right-click the Web page that you added in the previous step, and then click Set As Start Page.
7. In the HTML View of the Web page, add the following code to the BODY element:

   <form action="WebForm1.aspx" method="post" ID="Form1">
   <p><input type="text" name="postdata" ID="Text1"></p>
   <input type="submit" value="Post" ID="Submit1" NAME="Submit1">
   </form>

8. Build the project.
9. In Solution Explorer, right-click the Web page, and then click View in Browser.
10. In the text box, type the following text:
    
    BeginãøåöäéEnd
11. Click Post.
12. The WebForm1 Web form appears with the following text:

    BeginEnd

    Notice that certain characters have disappeared.

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