Characters being added to data from SQL to webpage

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I am using classic ASP to get data from a "Text" field type in a table from an SQL 2012, using the native client provider SYSCLI11. When I look at information in the Text field, among the other data, I see this:

<td> </td>

Which looks good.

When I open the webpage and obtain the data after opening the table and getting the record, the data for that field comes through like this:

<td>Â </td>

I checked to make sure there was no special hidden characters in the Text field between the

tags in the database but is just the whitespace.

I was thinking the collation type for the field would need to be changed but it does not seem to help. Does anyone have any insight on this?

Thanks

Posted 31-May-13 7:47am

onemorecoke

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**Zoltán Zörgő** · Accepted Answer · 2013-05-31T08:03:00

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I am pretty sure it is a code page problem. Make sure to emit html code with the same encoding as your data is stored in the database. Use Response.CodePage[^] and encoding meta tag[^] in conjunction to provide proper output. As I see, you have unicode (utf-8) encoding in your database.

Posted 31-May-13 8:03am

Zoltán Zörgő

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onemorecoke 31-May-13 14:16pm

I added Response.CodePage = 65001 and Response.CharSet = "utf-8" to the asp page but it did not seem to help.

Zoltán Zörgő 31-May-13 14:19pm

Make sure to have your asp file also saved in utf format. I don't know what editor you use, notepad++ can do the conversion. And set Response.CharSet = "utf-8" too. Are your fields NVARCHAR or VARCHAR? If you have put unicode data in them, they should be NVARCHAR (or NCHAR).
But: don't believe me with the codepage, check data and make sure to be consistent all over the application. Since you are using asp classic and sql2012 there might be a compatibility problem to if you don't use utf-8 all over.