Report Viewer - Parameter Accent (diacritic)

I have a report with a dynamic text wich displays the value of a parameter called "title". When I view my report within Eclipse and pass it a value like "Informaci?n" there's no problem, it show up the title correctly. But when I try to generate it through Report Viewer passing the value of the parameter in the url it shows something like "Informaci?3n" -if I pass the value through the parameter dialog it also works correctly-
The url is as follows:
'http://jbossserver:8080/ReportViewer/run?__format=pdf&__report=rptInformeMensual.rptdesign&title=Información'
I've also tried passing the url without encoding with no success
'http://jbossserver:8080/ReportViewer/run?__format=pdf&__report=rptInformeMensual.rptdesign&title=Informaci?n';

Do you know what can I do to make it work?

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mwilliams

Is this the only word you're having this issue with? Or is this just one example?

cirovladim

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'mwilliams'" data-cid="78655" data-time="1308258694" data-date="16 June 2011 - 02:11 PM">
Is this the only word you're having this issue with? Or is this just one example? </blockquote>
 
This is just an example, the same occurs with any word with a <a class='bbc_url' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diacritic'>diacritic</a> mark, i.e. 
"Gonz?lez" -> "González" 
"Garc?a" -> "Garc?-a" 
 
I think the report viewer does some encoding/decoding when reading parameter values from dialog but not when directly passed in the url, how may I overcome this?

cirovladim

I've been playing with parameter encoding and found a solution. 
First, You need to change diacritics for its counterparts <a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp'>html entities</a>. 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' >Informaci?n -> Información</blockquote>
Once you did this, you should url encode the parameters 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' >Información -> Informaci%26%23243%3Bn</blockquote>
So, the url finally looks like this: 
<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' >'<a class='bbc_url' href='http://jbossserver:8080/ReportViewer/run?__format=pdf&__report=rptInformeMensual.rptdesign&title=Información'>http://jbossserver:8080/ReportViewer/run?__format=pdf&__report=rptInformeMensual.rptdesign&title=Información</a>'</blockquote>
 
Here are the tools I played with: 
 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://www.string-functions.com/htmlencode.aspx'>http://www.string-functions.com/htmlencode.aspx</a> 
<a class='bbc_url' href='http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/'>http://meyerweb.com/eric/tools/dencoder/</a>

mwilliams

Thanks for the update. This could be a good tip to put in the devShare as well for easier searching. Plus, you'd be entered in the devShare article of the month contest.

cirovladim

<blockquote class='ipsBlockquote' data-author="'mwilliams'" data-cid="78850" data-time="1308678427" data-date="21 June 2011 - 10:47 AM">
...Plus, you'd be entered in the devShare article of the month contest. </blockquote>
 
Great!