Classic ASP text substitution and UTF-8 encoding

Question

We have a website that uses Classic ASP.

Part of our release process substitutes values in a file and we found a bug in it where it will write the file out as UTF-8.

Answer 1

I was searching on the same exact issue yesterday and came across:

http://blog.inspired.no/utf-8-with-asp-71/

Important part from that page, in case it goes away...

ASP CODE:

Response.ContentType = "text/html"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8"
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "UTF-8"

and the following HTML META tag:

We were using the meta tag and asp CharSet property, yet the page still didn't render correctly. After adding the other three lines to the asp file everything just worked.

Hope this helps!