I have a small .NET Core console app which has an appsettings.json file containing different configuration sections and some of the values contain accents (for example á or ó).
When I parse a given configuration section I get weird chars back for those.
Is there an option in the configuration namespace that could help in parsing the string correctly?
Real example:
{ "Loc": "", "Caption": "Ocasión - Los mejores vehículos" }, 2 Answers
JSON mandates UTF-8 as the file encoding. Your file is most likely saved in some other encoding, possibly Codepage 1252. Make sure you save the file as UTF-8 and your characters will work.
Different tools handle this differently.
For Notepad there's an Encoding selection in the Save dialog:
Visual Studio has a Save with Encoding option in the Save dialog:
You could also write a small program or script to do the conversion, e.g. the following PowerShell pipeline:
(Get-Content appsettings.json) | Set-Content -Encoding Utf8 appsettings.json Inspired by Deep Dive into Microsoft Configuration, I found a solution. My solution is to combine the use of json and xml.
In Your Program.cs, You need to add the load of xml. Example where I map settings to a POCO:
public static IWebHostBuilder CreateWebHostBuilder(string[] args) => WebHost.CreateDefaultBuilder(args) .ConfigureAppConfiguration(AddDbConfiguration) .UseStartup<Startup>(); private static void AddDbConfiguration(WebHostBuilderContext context, IConfigurationBuilder builder) { var configuration = builder.Build(); builder.AddXmlFile("appsettings.xml"); } My xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <root> <ConfigSettings> <Database>Specialskolekørsel</Database> <SystemId>1</SystemId> <EnableAudit>True</EnableAudit> </ConfigSettings> </root> My ConfigureServices:
public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) { services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_2); services.Configure<ConfigSettings>(Configuration.GetSection(nameof(ConfigSettings))); } My Controller:
public HomeController(IOptions<ConfigSettings> config) { Database = config.Value.Database; } Now the danish letter ø shows as expected. I hope You will find this useful.
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