convert utf-8 to iso-8859-1 in classic asp

by

Your handling the client side encoding but not the server side

It really depends on your server configuration as to how ASP is handling server requests.

There are two parts to dealing with how IIS encodes responses;

  • What is the physical file (b.asp) encoded as (UTF-8, Windows-1252, Western European (ISO) etc). As long as the processing CodePage matches the ASP file this should not be an issue (personally I prefer to use UTF-8 and in newer IIS versions this is the default).

  • What CodePage does the ASP page expect to be processed as? (<%@ CodePage %> attribute)

You can use the code snippet below in a test page to work out what your server defaults are;

<%
'Check how the server is currently encoding responses.

Call Response.Write(Response.Charset)
Call Response.Write(Response.CodePage)
%>

For the below sample to work correctly b.asp will have to be saved as 65001 (UTF-8), if you’re using Visual Studio this can be done using the “Advanced Save Options” dialog (not shown on menu by default has to be added using Customise Menu options).

<%@Language="VBScript" CodePage = 65001 %>
<% 
'IIS should process this page as 65001 (UTF-8), responses should be 
'treated as 28591 (ISO-8859-1).

Response.CharSet = "ISO-8859-1"
Response.CodePage = 28591
%>

More Related Contents:

  1. Convert UTF-8 String Classic ASP to SQL Database
  2. Detailed 500 error message, ASP + IIS 7.5
  3. Using Stored Procedure in Classical ASP .. execute and get results
  4. How to upload files with asp-classic
  5. How do I properly instantiate 32-bit COM objects in classic ASP after installing Windows Update KB4340558?
  6. Parameterized query in Classic Asp
  7. ASP: request.form is not returning value?
  8. ADODB.Recordset error ‘800a0bb9’ : Arguments are of the wrong type
  9. How to enable ASP classic in IIS7.5
  10. Querying Active Directory using VBScript
  11. Is codepage 65001 and utf-8 the same thing?
  12. How to resolve “The requested URL was rejected. Please consult with your administrator.” error?
  13. How to encrypt in VBScript using AES?
  14. How to read CSV files line by line in VBScript
  15. What is ANSI format?
  16. How do I remove  from the beginning of a file?
  17. Writing Unicode text to a text file?
  18. Save Data in Arabic in MySQL database
  19. Python: Converting from ISO-8859-1/latin1 to UTF-8
  20. Why do we use Base64?
  21. How to add a UTF-8 BOM in Java?
  22. Classic ASP – How to convert a UTF-8 string to UCS-2?
  23. How to get the character from unicode code point in PHP?
  24. SQL Server default character encoding
  25. ADODB.Parameters error ‘800a0e7c’ Parameter object is improperly defined. Inconsistent or incomplete information was provided
  26. Compare values of two arrays – classic asp
  27. Classic ASP: Multiple ASPSESSIONID in cookies
  28. Accessing a request’s body using classic ASP?
  29. How do i replace accents (german) in .NET
  30. Manipulating files with non-English names in R

Leave a Comment