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roboto1986
roboto1986

Reputation: 625

Classic ASP convert string to windows-1252

I am processing a POST request which is encoded in UTF-8. This POST request is responsible for creating a file in some folder. However, when I look at the file names for Russian characters, I see garbage values for the file name ( file contents are ok). English characters for file names are ok. In the script I see :

Set fsOBJ= Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fsOBJ= fsObj.CreateTextFile(fsOBJ.BuildPath(Path, strFileName))

I believe that 'strFileName' is my problem. Windows doesn't seem to like UTF-8 filenames. Any ideas on how to solve this.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2903

Answers (1)

AnthonyWJones
AnthonyWJones

Reputation: 189437

VBScript strings are strictly 2-byte unicode any encoding used in storage or transmission of strings is converted to unicode before a string existing in VBScript.

My guess is you have form post carrying the file name and the post is encoded as UTF-8. However your receiving page has its CodePage set to something other than 65001 (the UTF-8 code page) at the time of decoding the the form field carrying the file name. As a result the string retrieved from the form is corrupt.

Add <%@ CODEPAGE=65001 %> to your page, include Response.CharSet = "UTF-8" in the top of the page and save it as UTF-8.

Now when the source form posts UTF-8 encoded form data to the page the form data will be decoded to unicode correctly.

Upvotes: 3

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