Encoding problem classic ASP

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I have a problem with classic ASP. The encoding is wrong when I send data with XMLHttp.send. The response is a PDF file, but the “ÆØÅ” gets wrong, the “Ø” is read as “Ã¸y” for example. It’s like it’s a converting mistake from UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1, but it should be ISO-8859-1 now. I have <%@CODEPAGE="28591"%> at the top at the page and ISO-8859-1 as encoding in the XML file, I have checked the file so it’s valid ISO-8859-1. I don’t have access to the server I am sending this data to, but I fixed it in a VB6 program which use the same logic with:

aPostBody = StrConv(strBody, vbFromUnicode)
WinHttpReq.SetTimeouts 100000, 100000, 100000, 1000000
WinHttpReq.Send aPostBody

And in a C# program that also uses the same logic with

// ISO-8859-1
byte[] bytes = Encoding.GetEncoding(28591).GetBytes(data);

But in ASP classic I need some help to find a way to change the encoding on a string to ISO-8859-1.

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 01 '08 at 16:06

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Try:

Session.CodePage = 28591

There is some good information here, and I got the CodePage number here.

answered Dec 01 '08 at 16:06

D'Arcy Rittich

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Too bad I can't upvote twice. This same answer solved another issue for me thanks to the first link. – lambacck Jun 01 '11 at 19:59
This fixed my german encoding... combined with charset: Response.Charset = "utf-8" – Exter Jun 28 '12 at 07:40

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 03 '11 at 06:38

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Have you tried using Response.Charset and setting it like so:

<% Response.Charset="ISO-8859-1"%>

edited Jun 03 '11 at 06:38

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answered Dec 01 '08 at 16:45

score 2 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 05 '11 at 02:26

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Check the encoding of the .ASP file and all the .ASP files included with #include.

Once I had a problem when I created a new .ASP file in VS and was encoding in UTF-8. This file was included by others, and the file encoding "overwrites" all other encoding commands.

edited Dec 05 '11 at 02:26

Brock Adams

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answered Dec 02 '08 at 11:28

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This was my issue, pay attention to this answer. – Rohan West Mar 09 '16 at 22:01

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:59

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The solution:

Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8"
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "UTF-8

Complete: https://pt.stackoverflow.com/questions/80886/encoding-asp-cl%C3%A1ssico/81418#81418

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:59

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answered Sep 08 '15 at 15:27

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score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Dec 01 '08 at 16:49

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AFAIK this is a known problem with WinHttpReq / XMLHTTPRequest, hope someone proves me wrong.

answered Dec 01 '08 at 16:49

dr. evil

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score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Jun 14 '18 at 14:01

Have you tried using the meta tag equivalent to what you are doing?

Example:

Response.Write("<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1' />")

Note: I use a Response.Write to paste spit out the charset, because Visual Studio will attempt to save the file with a different encoding if, for example, the charset is UTF-8.

score 0 · Answer 7 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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Reference this as well: How do I set the character set using XMLHttp Object for a POST in classic ASP?

edited May 23 '17 at 11:46

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answered Dec 02 '08 at 15:53

score 0 · Answer 8 · edited Sep 05 '11 at 04:56

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I have used this component both on ASP and Javascript, but on javascript I found the resolution for this issue here: http://squio.nl/blog/2006/06/27/xmlhttprequest-and-character-encoding/

edited Sep 05 '11 at 04:56

Brian Webster

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answered Feb 27 '09 at 11:38

Encoding problem classic ASP

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