Does razor file support "Shift_JIS" encoding?

Question

Hi,

The visual studio create the .cshtml file with UTF-8 encdoing. I save it ith "shift-jis" encoding by using 'Advanced save options..' in visual studio.

Now, it shows the Japanese words is displayed in garbled code.

            @Html.DisplayName("メニューを生成します。")  

I want to know if the razor engine support "shift-jis" encoding.

Thanks

Answer 1

Hi,@Xie Steven ,

why not try to use UTF-8 in Advanced save options ?With UTF-8, the Japanese words can be shown correctly.
Here is my setting:

result:

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Answer 2

Razor do not limit the code page for any particular one, however you should check whether your master view contains something like the following:

<meta charset="UTF-8" />  

Also, there could be similar HTTP header specifying character set should be UTF-8 that you need to change if you need override.

Note that these two change are site-wide changes. You may break other things if you do that. Always do full check after this kind of change to make sure things working okay.

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That said, since UTF-8 can represent all characters in Shift-JIS, do you have any particular reason to use it?

Even if you need to support Shift-JIS data from database, you can always Encoding.Convert() your encoding in code before display/save it.

Answer 3

Html has limited character set support. UTF-8, UTF-16, Windows-1252 and ISO-8859 only.

You should use UTF-16 see

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/base-types/character-encoding