How to handle non-English characters in ASP.NET MVC routes

29Apr/0923

How to handle non-English characters in ASP.NET MVC routes

One of the most amazing features of ASP.NET MVC is its powerful routing engine that let you define clear URLs for your web application. Today I want to share a very simple and short tip with you to handle non-English URLs in your ActionLink methods.

Let’s start with an example; in a blog engine we have two routes as follows:

routes.MapRoute(

                "ShowPost",

                "read/{url}",

                new { controller = "Post", action = "Show" }

);

routes.MapRoute(

                "EditPost",

                "edit/{url}",

                new { controller = "Post", action = "Edit" }

);

and you decide to show a Persian title in a URL as follows: /blog/read/این-یک-عنوان-است

Everything is fine till now but if you want to put an ActionLink in your view to redirect user to edit page in this way:

<%= Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { url = Model.Url }) %>

You will be redirected to an ugly encoded URL like this /edit/%D8%AA%D8%B3%D8%AA instead of /blog/edit/این-یک-عنوان-است

Here’s the simple trick to overcome this:

<%= HttpUtility.UrlDecode(Html.ActionLink("Edit", "Edit", new { url = Model.Url })) %>

That’s it!

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