I am currently working on Classic ASP for one of my project. For non English languages I am getting boxes instead of special characters. I am rendering using UTF-8 but sometimes the characters goes to boxes. It comes back normal when I click refresh sometimes.
I followed all the steps below but i still get this problem
XML:
<xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8">
HTML:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Am I missing anything here? Thanks.
Add this to your page:
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"
It should display all correctly now.
Hope that helps
It's amazing BUT nobody gives a complete answer on what to do this PROPERLY... I hope this help somebody like me, because it was so hard to find the whole picture...
---------------- PREVIOUS CONSIDERATIONS --------------
FIRST, make sure IIS IS NOT replacing the Code Page... Go to IIS, click the Website, open ASP module, on Behavior it should be >> Code Page = 0
SECOND, The file itself should be checked, YES! the file... open your file explorer on windows (my computer), go to the folder where the files of your website are, take for example "default.asp", right click >> open with >> notepad THEN click on File >> Save As... IN THE DIALOG at the bottom says "Encoding", make sure it has UTF-8, otherwise you will have to add the
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> in every page (including server side includes), which is not correct.
---------------- CORRECT STRUCTURE OF THE PAGE --------------
<%#LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%><%
Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "text/html;charset=utf-8"
%><!-- #include virtual="/conexion.asp" -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="es">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
</head>
<body>
áéíóú
</body>
</html>
It should work fine now with QueryStrings, Database and regular HTML... uffff
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How can I get the degrees symbol to display correctly on a web page created with Asp.Net MVC without encoding it? The following HTML code will display �C using VS 2017:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
</head>
<body>
<div>°C</div>
</body>
</html>
The problem was solved by ensuring that the source file in Visual Studio 2017 was saved with the correct UTF-8 encoding.
To do this, first select Save As from the File menu. Then select the "Save with Encoding..." option in the Save dialog:
Then select the UTF-8 encoding:
I have an mvc solution with a standard view using _Layout page for layout. Layout page has charset=utf-8 set in the header like so:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
For some reason, when I type "£" symbol in the view I get it displayed as "A£", with a dash above "A". At the same time when I put the same symbol in the _Layout page it's displaying fine. I got this resolved by using encoded value
£
but was wondering why does it happen?
It may have happened because of a mismatch between <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> and the encoding of your physical file.
E.g. Your file could be saved as ISO-8859-1.
I have read that note. I am using Adobe Dreamweaver for all my files and I think it is encoded in 'utf-8'.
I have an URL for the site but not for it's feed(s), which I want to parse.
How to
detect if site has an RSS/Atom feed(s)?
Look for the rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" link in the head section of the site's defalut page:
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="http://someurl/feed/" />
<title>Some title</title>
</head>
As mentioned in this question How to check if a site has rss feeds
you need to download the page and check for a rel='alternate'.
You could also have a fallback to regex the page for any mention of a feed.xml or similar, should the first parse fail, if you want to be sure to find any possible link to a RSS/Atom. This would not be as certain to contain the RSS of the actual page, it could be a link to an outside RSS.
In my Grails GSP file I'm using the HTML meta tag:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
The problem is that Grails closes this tag and renders it as:
<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/>
This fails W3C's HTML validation (since my doctype is HTML and not XHTML).
Is there a fix for this? How can I get Grails to not interpret the
meta tag?
I'm using grails-1.2-M4.
Follow up:
I create the Grails bug GRAILS-5696 for this issue.
Not sure that this is the most beautiful solution, but at least it will work for your case:
<%= '<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">' %>
Well...this does not work since it is preprocessed by Grails before displayed as is.
So the only solution I see is to create a TagLib and output the content like this:
class MetaTagLib {
static namespace = 'my'
def meta = {
out << "<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=UTF-8\"/>"
}
}
and use it like:
<my:meta />
It works. Tested.
You could validate as HTML5 instead of HTML 4.01, by using <!DOCTYPE html> (that's it, really!). HTML5 allows trailing slashes even in the HTML syntax, in order to allow for systems like this that produce pseudo-XHTML.
Of course, HTML5 is not yet a finished standard; it may change. I think that this aspect of it is unlikely to be changed, but there is still some fairly contentious debate about a lot of the new HTML5 features, so keep in mind that it's not yet finalized.
I need to be able to send the content type "text/xml" to Firefox and Safari, to allow them to render inline SVG in one of my pages.
This works, as long as the content type is "text/xml".
However, when IE hits the page, if the content type is not "text/html" it tries to render the XML document tree, rather than the XHTML content of the page.
What is the "right way" in ASP.NET MVC to set the HTTP Content-Type of ALL of my views?
Keep in mind that I am going to be rendering the views as ViewResults.
Ok, to clear any confusion up:
User Agent Content-Type Desired
-----------------------------------
IE 5.5 text/html
IE 6 text/html
IE 7 text/html
IE 8 text/html
Firefox text/xml
Safari text/xml
Chrome text/xml
And so on.
All of the browsers listed support SVG inline in some way or another. I have a consistent delivery format, save the content type.
You could look at the properties in Request.Browser and sniff out IE that way, and return the proper view that way, though that is prone to issues. This isn't optimal because IE might support it in the future.
public ActionResult MyAction() {
if (this.Request.Browser.Browser == "IE") {
return View("NonSVG");
} else {
return View("SVG");
}
}
Something worth looking into a little more might be this page on Codeplex. They define a property on Browser called AcceptsImageSVG, but it looks like it's geared towards mobile browsers, don't know if it could be used in your situation.
According to W3, you should be using application/xhtml+xml rather than text/xml to signify XHTML:
http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/NOTE-xhtml-media-types-20020801/#text-xml
The above article also notes that text/html should not be used for XHTML content.
You can determine the browser type by using the Request.Browser object
See this example http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.configuration.httpcapabilitiesbase.type%28VS.80%29.aspx
So you could do something like:
if( Request.Browser.Type.ToUpper().Contains("IE") )
{
// Return IE View
}
else
{
// Return the other view
}
Or, if you use this in lots of places you could create a ViewResult factory that returns the proper view result based on the browser type.
Kind of hacky, but... What if the SVG was in a frame, the frame advertised content-type=text/xml, while the containing page advertsized the more proper application/xhtml+xml. This divides the problem into two (possibly) more tractable ones.
I'm not sure whether this will work, but you could try using conditional comments:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<!--[if lte IE 8]>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
<![endif]-->
<!--[if gt IE 8]>-->
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xml; charset=UTF-8" />
<!--<![endif]-->
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Test page</p>
</body>
</html>
Or, better yet, use HTML5:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8" />
<title>Test page</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Test page</p>
</body>
</html>
You don't even need to specify the content type.