Export Data table With Arabic Data to Excel - asp.net

Question

I am Having a Data Table which consists of arabic data.
When I am Exporting it to excel I am unable to get the Arabic data correctly.
Currently my code is as below,
public void ExportExcel(DataTable table, string filename)
{
if (table != null && filename != "")
{
HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = true;
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;attachment;filename=" + filename + ".xls");
HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "";
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new System.IO.StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite =
new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
GridView GrdExcel = new GridView();
GrdExcel.AllowPaging = false;
GrdExcel.DataSource = table;
GrdExcel.DataBind();
for (int i = 0; i < GrdExcel.Rows.Count; i++)
{
GridViewRow row = GrdExcel.Rows[i];
row.Attributes.Add("class", "text");
}
GrdExcel.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
string style = #"<style> .textmode { mso-number-format:\#; } </style>";
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(style);
HttpContext.Current.Response.Output.Write(stringWrite.ToString());
HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
}
}
EDIT 1:
Below is the final code which has worked for me
////If you want the option to open the Excel file without saving than
////comment out the line below
HttpContext.Current.Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
HttpContext.Current.Response.Clear();
HttpContext.Current.Response.Buffer = true;
HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "UTF-8";
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;
HttpContext.Current.Response.AddHeader("content-disposition", "attachment;attachment;filename=" + filename + ".xls");
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "application/vnd.ms-excel";
System.IO.StringWriter stringWrite = new System.IO.StringWriter();
System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter htmlWrite =
new HtmlTextWriter(stringWrite);
DataGrid grdExcel = new DataGrid();
grdExcel.AllowPaging = false;
grdExcel.DataSource = table;
grdExcel.DataBind();
foreach (DataGridItem i in grdExcel.Items)
{
foreach (TableCell tc in i.Cells)
tc.Attributes.Add("class", "text");
}
grdExcel.RenderControl(htmlWrite);
string style = #"<style> .text { mso-number-format:\#; } </style> ";
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(style);
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(stringWrite.ToString());
HttpContext.Current.Response.Flush();
HttpContext.Current.Response.End();
This was written by referring few articles from the web .Hope it helps

Answer 1

add this code to your code:
HttpContext.Current.Response.Charset = "UTF-8";
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8;

Answer 2

Every string wrap in Encoding.UTF8.GetString (for ex: Encoding.UTF8.GetString(str))
and in web.config:
<system.web>
<globalization requestEncoding="utf-8" responseEncoding="utf-8" culture="he-IL"/>
</system.web>
he-IL is in my case, write your language culture respectively