UTF8-Detection on the server?

[Sven]

Hi

I'm using a .NET client application that does requests to a VB6-server application hosted in an ASP page (the page simply created the object and calls a method passing the asp scripting context as a reference)

When using the ASP scripting context to get a query string variable containing an UTF8-encoded german character I get the wrong string - I guess because IIS is not knowing that the string is UTF8 instead of ASCII

The code to get the string is simply
Result = Server.Request.Item("file"

The same problem occures when querying a .NET site from a VB6 application - in this case the reqult is UTF8 and the VB6 application gets the UTF8 encoded €-sign without knowing that it needs to decode UTF8 to BSTR before searching for ASC(128)

So my questions:
1) is there a way to tell IIS inside a request that variables are UTF-8 in a way that IIS is providing the correctly decoded characters
2) is there a way for a VB6 client to detect UTF-8 encoding and successfully decode such a response to BSTR

Sven

 

[Mark Schupp]

Will all data submitted from the client be UTF-8 encoded?
If so, set the code page for asp to utf-8

Session.Codepage = 65001
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Mark Schupp
Head of Development
Integrity eLearning
www.ielearning.com

Hi,

I'm using a .NET client application that does requests to a VB6-server

application hosted in an ASP page (the page simply created the object and
calls a method passing the asp scripting context as a reference).

When using the ASP scripting context to get a query string variable

containing an UTF8-encoded german character I get the wrong string - I guess
because IIS is not knowing that the string is UTF8 instead of ASCII.

The code to get the string is simply
Result = Server.Request.Item("file")

The same problem occures when querying a .NET site from a VB6

application - in this case the reqult is UTF8 and the VB6 application gets
the UTF8 encoded ?-sign without knowing that it needs to decode UTF8 to BSTR
before searching for ASC(128).

So my questions:
1) is there a way to tell IIS inside a request that variables are UTF-8

in a way that IIS is providing the correctly decoded characters?

2) is there a way for a VB6 client to detect UTF-8 encoding and

successfully decode such a response to BSTR?