RichardPogson
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Yahoo YUI Connection Charset Data Corruption Problem
I am using Yahoo's YUI to post some textbox data to a Classic ASP page. I am having some difficult with the character encoding during this process. The textbox can contain double byte chars such as the £ symbol. The YUI then grabs the form and posts this using UTF8 which only supports single byte chars. The posted £ is sent as two characters C2 and A3. The asp page at the other end of the post effectively receives corrupted data. Has anyone encountered this problem before. Can I force the YUI not to use UTF8?
Michel Plungjan
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I have now got a working solution though it is not perfect. The receiving asp page must have the UTF-8 charset enrforced so at the top of the file add:
@ CodePage=65001
Before any data passed by the javascript is read add the following:
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"
Now the double byte chars that were passed can not be caught by a replace but are writen out correctly. I think this is due to asp's request object being unable to alternate charsets.
More information here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524628.aspx
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@ CodePage=65001
Before any data passed by the javascript is read add the following:
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"
Now the double byte chars that were passed can not be caught by a replace but are writen out correctly. I think this is due to asp's request object being unable to alternate charsets.
More information here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms524628.aspx
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