Norwegian special characters not showing correctly

Question

I have developed a simple application which uses portable object to translate words from english to norsk.

no.po (portable object)

msgid "Hello world!"
msgstr "Hei Verden!"

msgid "Date Of Birth"
msgstr "Fødselsdato"

Startup.cs

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services)
{
    services.Configure(options =>
    {
        // This lambda determines whether user consent for non-essential cookies is needed for a given request.
        options.CheckConsentNeeded = context => true;
        options.MinimumSameSitePolicy = SameSiteMode.None;
    });


    services.AddMvc().SetCompatibilityVersion(CompatibilityVersion.Version_2_1)
        .AddViewLocalization();

    services.AddPortableObjectLocalization();

    services.Configure(
        opts =>
        {
            var supportedCultures = new List
            {
        new CultureInfo("en-US"),
        new CultureInfo("en"),
        new CultureInfo("fr-FR"),
        new CultureInfo("fr"),
        new CultureInfo("no"),
        new CultureInfo("nb-NO"),
            };

            opts.DefaultRequestCulture = new RequestCulture("en-US");
            opts.SupportedCultures = supportedCultures;
            opts.SupportedUICultures = supportedCultures;
        });
}

// This method gets called by the runtime. Use this method to configure the HTTP request pipeline.
public void Configure(IApplicationBuilder app, IHostingEnvironment env)
{
    if (env.IsDevelopment())
    {
        app.UseDeveloperExceptionPage();
    }
    else
    {
        app.UseExceptionHandler("/Home/Error");
    }

    app.UseStaticFiles();
    app.UseCookiePolicy();
    app.UseRequestLocalization();
    app.UseMvc(routes =>
    {
        routes.MapRoute(
            name: "default",
            template: "{controller=Home}/{action=Index}/{id?}");
    });
}

View

    @using Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization
    @inject IViewLocalizer Localizer
    
    @{
        ViewData["Title"] = "About";
        Layout = "~/Views/Shared/_Layout.cshtml";
    }
    
    @ViewData["Title"].
    @ViewData["Message"]
    
    Use this area to provide additional information.
    
    @Localizer["Hello world!"]
    @Localizer["Date Of Birth"]

**_Layout.cshtml**

    
    
    
        
        
        @ViewData["Title"] - SuveWebLocale
    
        
            
            
            
            
            
        
        
            
            
            
            
            
            
        
    
    
        
            
                
                    
                    SuveWebLocale
                
                
                    
                        Home
                        About
                        Contact
                    
                
            
        
    
        
    
        
            @RenderBody()
            
            
                © 2018 - SuveWebLocale
            
        
    
        @*
            
            
            
        
        
            
            
            
        *@
    
        @RenderSection("Scripts", required: false)

Actual output

As you can see the above image,

F�dselsdato is not properly encoded. I don't know what was the reason behind it. If I missed anything in my code,please advise me to achieve my expectation.

Expected output should be Fødselsdato

Thanks.

Suvethan Nantha · Accepted Answer

I found a way to resolve the problem. In order to run display international language characters we need to check whether our file is in UTF-8 format or not. By default it will be in ANSI format. We need to convert it from ANSI to UTF-8 using any text editors. I'll show how I fixed it.

Open the portable object (po) file which contains localization texts in Notepad++ and go to Encoding tab and check the format. If it is not in UTF-8 format convert it to UTF-8 as shown below.

Save the file and run the application you would see all the characters show perfectly in browsers.

Norwegian special characters not showing correctly

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