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user1187968
user1187968

Reputation: 7986

Classic ASP (VBScript) replace special character in a string is acting strange

In classic ASP (VBScript), when I replace the string, a strange character appears. 

<%
    myString = "My Ttitle &#174;"
    myString = Replace(myString,"&#174;", "®")
    Response.Write(myString)
%>

If I print this out to HTML, the final result is (Which has a strange A in it): 

My Ttitle ®

Upvotes: 4

Views: 27325

Answers (3)

John
John

Reputation: 4638

  1. add this at the top of your page <%@ language="vbscript" codepage="65001"%>

  2. open your file in a text editor, (notepad will do) select Save As from the file menu and choose utf-8 rather than ANSI encoding

  3. add in your head section <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> (this isn't actually necessary but it doesn't do any harm)

Further information here

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InternationalizationAndClassicASP.aspx

Upvotes: 6

meda
meda

Reputation: 45490

Change 

myString = Replace(myString,"&#174;", "®")

to

myString = Replace(myString,"&#174;", "&reg;")

Upvotes: 1

Rich
Rich

Reputation: 4170

Your website encoding is most likely wrong. Add this before your myString declaration. 

response.write('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">')

Upvotes: 0

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