Cannot contact site at the specified URL There is no Web named "Website Name"

Question

I am trying to get the clientcontext of the subsite that I create

In the below code I check if the site exits and return the url if its existing

            var web = context.Web;
            context.Load(web, w => w.Webs);
            context.ExecuteQuery();
            var subWeb = (from w in web.Webs where w.Title == webTitle select w).SingleOrDefault();
            if (subWeb == null)
                return false;
            Url = subWeb.Url;

This works for cases where the website url is not containing special characters like é

When it has characters like that I get the below error

Cannot contact site at the specified URL https://abc.sharepoint.com/sites/abc/xxx-BeaujonImieMol�culaire.

I doubt that � part of the URL as its not the same special character

How should I handle this? How should characters like � be handled or converted to actual character?

Answer 1

I had the same issue once. I solved it by copying the text into notepad and encode it to UTF-8