handle chinese characters?

[js]

Hi, hwo to use ASP to handle chinese characters output?
I have try two ways:
1. store the string in a text file(unicode file)
2. store the string in an access database

The first method got an error:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0239'
Cannot process file
UNICODE ASP files are not supported.

The second method output "???" on the browser.

How to handle it, pls help.

Thanks....

[Mark Schupp]

Put session.codepage=65001 at the beginning of your page to tell ASP to send
data to the browser in UTF-8 format.

That should make the Access approach work.

To use a text file. Put the data in a unicode .txt file and read it in with
the scripting.filesystem object (there is a parameter specifying a unicode
file). Then output the information as desired.

--
Mark Schupp
Head of Development
Integrity eLearning
www.ielearning.com
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Hi, hwo to use ASP to handle chinese characters output?
I have try two ways:
1. store the string in a text file(unicode file)
2. store the string in an access database

The first method got an error:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0239'
Cannot process file
UNICODE ASP files are not supported.

The second method output "???" on the browser.

How to handle it, pls help.

Thanks....

[js]

Thanks Marks!

It help me out.

[Hans]

You must of course have a unicode font on the client. Add
<%@codepage=65001%> in top of your asp files (don't save your asp files in
Unicode text). Add a <meta> tag or add a custom HTTP header on your virtual
direcotry with customer Header Name "Content-Type" and value "text/html;
Charset=utf-8" (without quotes). You can later on remove this header for
individual files (or you can just add custom headers on the files you want).
This will enforce the encoding (which you in IE can see by right
click->Encoding) in the page to be utf-8. If the encoding is not correct and
you post back data to the server it will be "rubbish".

In your access database open a table and select a unicode font in
Format->Font menu to see unicode characters in Access. It could otherwise be
problematic to see what is actually stored in database.

Regards
/Hans

[Hans]

Sorry if this mesage is sent twice (it was immeidately removed for some
reason)

You must of course have a unicode font on the client. Add
@codepage=65001 in top of your asp files (don't save your asp files in
Unicode text). Add a <meta> tag or add a custom HTTP header on your virtual
direcotry with customer Header Name "Content-Type" and value "text/html;
Charset=utf-8" (without quotes). You can later on remove this header for
individual files (or you can just add custom headers on the files you want).
This will enforce the encoding (which you in IE can see by right
click->Encoding) in the page to be utf-8. If the encoding is not correct and
you post back data to the server it will be "rubbish".

In your access database open a table and select a unicode font in
Format->Font menu to see unicode characters in Access. It could otherwise be
problematic to see what is actually stored in database
Regards
/Hans

[js]

Thanks Hans.

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You must of course have a unicode font on the client. Add
<%@codepage=65001%> in top of your asp files (don't save your asp files in
Unicode text). Add a <meta> tag or add a custom HTTP header on your virtual direcotry with customer Header Name "Content-Type" and value "text/html;
Charset=utf-8" (without quotes). You can later on remove this header for
individual files (or you can just add custom headers on the files you want). This will enforce the encoding (which you in IE can see by right
click->Encoding) in the page to be utf-8. If the encoding is not correct and you post back data to the server it will be "rubbish".

In your access database open a table and select a unicode font in
Format->Font menu to see unicode characters in Access. It could otherwise be problematic to see what is actually stored in database.

Regards
/Hans