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Printing To The Screen in Chinese

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Krus1972

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I am currently using classic ASP to parse an XML file that contains text in Chinese.

I have no problem parsing the actual XML file and the XML nodes within the file.

The problem I am having is that the text within the actual XML nodes is chinese.


When I place the contents of the XML node (the chinese text) inside an ASP variable called "myvariable" and then I attempt to write it to the screen using Response.write(myvariable) I get nothing but question marks printed to the screen where the chinese letters should be.

I want to preserve the chinese lettering and have it writen to the screen unaltered.

Does anyone know why the chinese text is being converted to question marks when I store it in "myvariable" and then response.write(myvariable) to the screen?

Any help would be well appreciated.



 
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Also look how your Session.Codepage is set:

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I am using the following script and it is NOT showing the proper chinese letters. It is showing a bunch of other special charachters, but the the proper chinese charachters

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

Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"

SearchEngine = "URL_For_The_Chinese_XML_Feed"
Set XML = Server.CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")
XML.Open "GET", SearchEngine, False
XML.Send
THESTRING = XML.responseXML.selectSingleNode("ItemSearchResponse/Description").Text
Response.write(THESTRING)


The XML feed does contain the proper chinese letteres but when they are printed to the screen using the script above, the charachters are changed to a bunch of other special looking charachters.

I am trying to preserve the original chinese text that is in the XML file and display it properly on the screen.

Any help would be well appreciated.

Thanks

 
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I'd give it a try by adding Session.CodePage = 65001 and converting the entire asp page to UTF-8 without BOM.

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That doesn't work. Instead of getting the proper, unaltered chinese letters I am getting the following type of text:

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I am really at a loss here.

 
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I have tried some many things in an effort to get the Chinese letter to print to the screen properly using my code listed above.
I am at a complete loss.

Any help would be well appreciated.

 
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If you want a foolproof way to print Chinese, send it as &#..; codes. For example
Code: 
<html>
<head><title>Chinese</title></head>
<body>
&#20320;&#22909;<!-- in decimal-->
&#x4F60;&#x597D;<!-- or in hex -->
</body>
</html>
Will print ni hao. UTF-8 isn't easy as the number of characters transmitted per character can vary from 1 to 7. You could, as an alternative, try UTF-16. If that still doesn't work, then try reading the XML nodes and converting them to the relevant decimal or hex numbers for printing.
 
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Forgot that it would translate the stuff. The code read (without the spaces)

& # 20320 ; & # 22909 ; <!-- in decimal -->
& # x4F60 ; & # x 5970 ;<!-- in hex -->
 
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I think it would be a pain in the neck to translate already properly stored Chinese into entities.
What was posted on 11 Nov 12 12:36 was already proper Chinese in UTF-8 - just not interpreted corretcly.

As obviously your code side is meanwhile properly coded, I suspect your IIS is not yet set properly.
Go to Start=>Control Panel=>Administration=>IIS Manager=>ASP=>Codepage
Set it to 65001.

Good luck!


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Could you post a sample of what you are trying to display? Just the first 10 characters will do.
 
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3 things you need for the ASP file:
<%@ CodePage=65001 LANGUAGE = VBScript.Encode %>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Save As Encoding: UTF-8
 
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I've just been playing this. IE does not display UTF-8. It only displays Unicode even though the encoding is called utf-8. You need a bit of scripting to read in the utf-8 and convert it to unicode.
Code: 
<% @CodePage=65001 Language="JavaScript" %>
<%
Response.CodePage = 65001;
Response.AddHeader ("content-type", "text/html;charset=UTF-8");
Response.ContentType="text/html;charset=UTF-8";
Response.CharSet = "UTF-8";
// Build up the string
str = ""
str += "\xE4\xbd\xa0";
str += "\xE5\xA5\xBD";
// This works
Response.Write ("Supposed to get &#x4f60;&#x597d;<br/>");
Response.Write ("This is utf-8: " + str + "<br/>");
// Convert UTF-8 to Unicode
ustr = "";
ii = -1; imax = str.length;
while (ii < imax) {
   utf1 = str.charCodeAt(++ii);
   if ((utf1 & 0x80) == 0)
      ustr += String.fromCharCode(utf1);
   // Do something when ((utf1 & 0xE0) == 0x80)
   else if ((utf1 & 0xF0) == 0xE0) {
      utf2 = str.charCodeAt(++ii);
      utf3 = str.charCodeAt(++ii);
      ustr += String.fromCharCode(((utf1 & 15) << 12) | ((utf2 & 63) << 6) | (utf3 & 63));
   }
}
Response.Write ("This is unicode: " + ustr + "<br/>");
%>
 
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You could also do it in vbscript but the lack of shift operators makes coding a bit awkward.
 
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