Facebook encoding nordic chars

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 17/09/2020 13:05:49

Maybe not a Dynamicweb specifik case, but I bet many of you have experienced the same problems

Facebook open graph won´t accept nordic chars, and I have tried everything to format/encode the url to make facebook happy - with no luck

I have tried all of these https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.httputility.urlencode?view=netcore-3.1

Anyone got a suggestion on how I can encode the image paths to make facebook happy?

/Hans

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 17/09/2020 13:27:36

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 17/09/2020 16:02:46

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Nordic characters in the URL? Or in the OG metatags...?

BR Nicolai

Votes for this answer: 1

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 17/09/2020 16:28:00

Ok, but Actually - i am having problems with the og tags. None of the Encoding I try seem to get the result Facebook requires.

I could use Replace, but that seems somewhat cumbersome.

/Hans

Nicolai Pedersen

Posted on 17/09/2020 16:41:07

Well, that should be supported...

What error do you get when using https://developers.facebook.com/tools/debug/ to validate your tags?

BR Nicolai

Hans Ravnsfjall

Posted on 23/09/2020 07:23:06

Sorry for the delay, but now it apparantly works by using the UrlPathEncodeString method

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.web.httputility.urlpathencode?view=netcore-3.1

Just tried with a path that has nordic chars, and whitespace in the path and apparantly - it works

sorry for the confusion

/Hans

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