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Hebrew with JavaScript server-side

Hello,

I am programming ASP using JavaScript as my server-side language.
I have the following code:

<%
Response.CharSet="windows-1255"

var xmlHttp=new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
xmlHttp.open("GET", "http://www.simil.co.il/", false);
xmlHttp.send();
xmlDoc = xmlHttp.responseText;

Response.Write(xmlDoc);
%>

And I get the Hebrew (the page is in Hebrew) as ?? ??? ?? ?

How can this be solved?

Thanks.

stanscott2

Whenever you send an XMLHTTPRequest, you need to specify a content-type, if you don't, UTF-8 is used.

In the line just following your xmlHttp.open code, enter this:

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('text/xml', 'Windows-1255');

Zvonko

Does this help:

Response.Write(Server.HTMLEncode(xmlDoc));

shmulik15

ASKER

Thanks guys, but neither worked.

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader('text/xml', 'Windows-1255'); <- Returns "Unspecified error "
HTMLEncode returns it as Gibberish as well.

Zvonko

Stupid question: do you have correct displayed alefbet characters on the same page when you see question marks?
Can you see the page correct when you enter the simil URL in browser address bar?

shmulik15

ASKER

Zvonko: Yes, Simil is a webpage that I own and it is displayed just fine, and yes, I can indeed see Hebrew on the page with the XMLHTTP Request.

stanscott2

Sorry, let's try again:

xmlHttp.setRequestHeader("Content-Type:text/html"; charset:ISO-8859-1");

I believe that the unicode character set supports Hebrew. If not, try replacing "ISO-8859-1" with "Windows-1255".

shmulik15

ASKER

stanscott2:
This returns an error as well.

Zvonko

Is here something for you: http://www.yuro2u.com/guides/XMLHTTP/

shmulik15

ASKER

Thanks zvonko, but the example is in VBS, I need it in JS (and I don't know how to make it).
Any help with that would be appreciated.

Zvonko

There is no example that you could directly use. The link was more to enlight the background of the code page problem.
If you have any VB example I can easuly convert it for you to JScript.

By the way, my alias is זְאֵב ;-)

shmulik15

ASKER

Well, it says the problem with Hebrew is that it has to be encoded into UTF-8

This function should do it:

Function AsciiToUnicode(ByRef pstrAscii)
For llngIndex = 1 To LenB(pstrAscii)
lstrUnicode = lstrUnicode & Chr(AscB(MidB(pstrAscii, llngIndex,1)))
Next
AsciiToUnicode = lstrUnicode
End function
(taken from the article you linked to)

Zvonko

OK, give me a second...

Zvonko

Here we go:

<html>
<head>
<title>Zvonko *</title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="nickname">זְאֵב</div>
<script>

function AsciiToUnicode(pstrAscii){
var lstrUnicode = "";
for(var i=0;i<pstrAscii.length;i++){
lstrUnicode += String.fromCharCode(pstrAscii.charCodeAt(i));
}
return lstrUnicode;
}

alert(AsciiToUnicode(document.getElementById("nickname").innerHTML));
</script>
</body>
</html>

shmulik15

ASKER

Ugh, the article said it should do the trick, which it didn't.
Any ideas would be appreciated.

By the way - Thank you very much for all the effort, Zvonko.

Zvonko

OK, let us start over.
When I store the browser html page from http://www.simil.co.il/ to local file and look at it then I see alefbet because the page encoding is switched (automaticaly) to "Hebrew (Windows)"
By the way, the Goggle ad on that page is then Giberisch.
Now, what page encoding schema does you browser show and use when you look at the page with or without the injected html?

shmulik15

ASKER

The encoding is(was) Windows-1255 and I tried the UTF-8 method later. Neither worked.

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shmulik15

ASKER

Sure, sending as email.

Michel Plungjan

Hi people - what was the result of this exercise? Would you please share?

alert("\u05DD\u05D5\u05DC\u05E9")

Zvonko

Uhps, sorry, I solved it but missed to update here.
Give me a second please...

Zvonko

OK, this is the working example:

<%@LANGUAGE="JavaScript"%>
<%

var xmlHttp = Server.CreateObject("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1");

xmlHttp.open("GET", "http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt3001.htm", false);

xmlHttp.send();
xmlDoc = xmlHttp.responseText;

Response.Write('<base href="http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/">');
Response.Write(xmlDoc);

%>