ASP Page Character Set Problem, Please Help

[salsipius]

Let me start by saying that I have searched high and low for a solution to this problem and I am about ready to give up... grrrrrrr


I have extended an asp page written by someone else with an AJAX lookup that gets a list of people from the database via another asp page and updates a dropdown without refreshing the page, this works great no problems.

Until, the list of people contains someone with a name in another language, German for instance has the ß character. When my list is written to the screen all the ß characters show up as?

I did manage to fix this by getting my data from an ASPX page but that's not the end of the story.

I would like to make this getPeople a web service method. So I create an ASP.net web service that gives me a list of people but now I am back to square one, my ß's are again ?'s.......

I have tried every method of formatting that I came accross

Response.ContentType = "text/html"
Response.Charset = "utf-8"
Session.Codepage = 65001

and many variations of the above.


The really odd thing is that I know that I am getting the characters from the web service in the correct format

Here is the exact output from the WebService, you can see the ß is correct

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> 
    <string xmlns="http://tempuri.org/">
        <select id ="D" name = "asdf" style="width:250px !important;" > 
            <option value = "6074">Diane,Langenbacher-Nießing</option>
        </select>
    </string> 

Once the above is written to the web page I get this

<select id ="D" name = "TEST" style="width:250px !important;" >
<option value = "6074">Diane,Langenbacher-Nie?ing</option>
</select>



Here is the ASP Code that I use to create the dropdown, it's failry simple

<%
Response.Clear
Response.ContentType = "text/html"
Response.Charset = "utf-8"
Session.Codepage = 65001
 
Response.Write consumeWebService() 
Function consumeWebService() 
    Dim soapClient
    Set soapClient = Server.CreateObject("MSSOAP.SoapClient") 
    soapClient.ClientProperty("ServerHTTPRequest") = True 
    soapClient.mssoapinit "http://localhost:1749/GileadGlobal/Service.asmx?wsdl" 
    consumeWebService = soapClient.GetEmployees("D","TEST")
End Function
%>

PLEASE HELP

[CroCrew]

Please don’t double post questions.

Thank you~

[salsipius]

Sorry for the Duplication, I tried to delete but it olny lets me edit?

[jhardman]

Sorry for the Duplication, I tried to delete but it olny lets me edit?

It's been a while since I was an ordinary member, and back then this site was in a different format, so I don't remember how deletes are carried out.

As far as your problem, I think your web service is converting it. Is there anyway you can escape characters in the web service? Perhaps convert it to &szlig; or &#223;

[markrawlingson]

Thankfully I only got my mod status a few days ago, so I can tell you there is no delete option, you can only delete the content from your post so that your post shows up empty - not very good. Though If I post something and then figure out the answer I usually edit my post with "nevermind this thread, figured it out"

:)

Sincerely,
Mark

It's been a while since I was an ordinary member, and back then this site was in a different format, so I don't remember how deletes are carried out.

As far as your problem, I think your web service is converting it. Is there anyway you can escape characters in the web service? Perhaps convert it to ß or ß