Passing Arabic characters in a query string

[Chetanfcc]

Hi All, I am using httpwebrequest (vb.Net) to make a call to a url ("GET" request). The call works fine when all the query string parameters are in english. I can make the URL call from a web-browser using Arabic characters and get a response as well. But when i try passing Arabic characters as a querystring parameter through the httpwebrequest object, the characters appear garbled. Is there any way I can prevent this from happening, maybe by using some sort of encoding or is there any other workaround available. Thanks in advance guys, Chetan

[Chetanfcc]

Hey All, I figured it out! All i needed to do was to encode only the Arabic part of the text using HttpUtility.UrlEncode text= HttpUtility.UrlEncode(Text.ToString) and then attach it to the URI. This way the server(processing page) at the other end is able to decode the characters correctly. Thanks

[Pierre Francis]

thanks for the hint, but UrlEncode changed the ?????? characters to be like that %3f%3f%3f%3f%3f%3f% so still it isn't arabic !

[Mohammed Derbashi]

use URL Decode on target page

Thank you, M. Derbashi