Is codepage 65001 and utf-8 the same thing?
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%> <!--#include file="conn.asp"--> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> Is the above code right? Yes. UTF-8 is CP65001 in Windows (which is just a way of specifying UTF-8 in the legacy codepage stuff). As far as I read ASP can handle UTF-8 when specified that way. Your code is correct although I prefer to set the CharSet in code rather than use the meta