Classic ASP response.write Chinese characters in UTF-8

Question

I am new to charsets and encoding. I don't know what I am doing wrong but the page just spits out weird codes when I want it output 你好. This is my code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<%Response.ContentType = "text/html"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8"
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "UTF-8"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
</head>
<body>
<%response.write ("你好")%>
</body>
</html>

All I can see on the screen is: ä½ å¥½ The file is saved in UTF-8 encoding as well.

Thanks in advance!

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 13 '13 at 16:55

If it helps someone. ASP declaractions always before any HTML. Incudes define session, that way never fails to encode utf-8

<%@CodePage = 65001%>
<%
Session.CodePage = 65001
Response.charset ="utf-8"
Session.LCID     = 1033 'en-US
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge" />
</head>
<body>
<%response.write ("你好")%>
</body>
</html>

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 19 '13 at 23:20

1

Move your DOCTYPE declaration after the code block that sets the codepage. The codepage setting needs to happen before any output.

answered Jan 19 '13 at 23:20

webaware

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score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:06

Most likely your asp file is just UTF-8 encoded (without bom).
If it is, need to save file with BOM.
In Notepad++, Encoding > Convert to UTF-8
In Notepad, specify Encoding as UTF-8 on save dialog.

In fact, BOM for UTF-8 files is not recommended.
The point is In ASP, Response stream requires BOM implicitly.
As an experiment, try to run following page (encoded as utf-8 without bom), you'll see Response object flushes weird characters instead of the letter. However direct input will be smooth as it should be.

<%
Response.Codepage = 65001
Response.Charset = "utf-8"
Response.Write "I'm weird: 好"
%><br />I'm not weird: 好

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:27

0

You don't have to save the .asp as UTF-8 at the server side! Just save it normally (UCS-2).

answered Jan 20 '13 at 22:27

Sander_P

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Classic ASP response.write Chinese characters in UTF-8

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