How to display Chinese characters in classic ASP using response.write

Question

How to display Chinese characters in ASP using response.write?

<%
  Response.CodePage=51936
  Response.Charset="UTF-8"
  Response.ContentType = "text/html"
  Dim Msg
  Msg="简"
%>
<%Response.Write Msg%>

Try `Response.CodePage=65001` – Esailija Dec 04 '12 at 23:19 — Esailija, Dec 04 '12 at 23:19

score 3 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 05 '12 at 04:10

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Codepage 51936 is EUC-CN. Not UTF-8, which is 65001.

answered Dec 05 '12 at 04:10

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Response.Write always emits non Chinese characters no matter the codepage set – TrustyCoder Dec 05 '12 at 13:02
What's the encoding of your text editor? The whole tool chain must be in the same encoding... – dda Dec 05 '12 at 13:22
I am using UTF encoding without BOM. Should all the pages have the same encoding. Actually what I am doing is defining that needs to be translated in a single page and including them in other pages. other pages might have different encoding. – TrustyCoder Dec 05 '12 at 14:32
You're setting yourself up for more pain than you should. Please realize that in static strings like `Msg="简"`, 简 will be in whatever encoding your .asp page is. Which means that `Response.CodePage=XXXXXX` and `Response.Charset="xxxx"` will have to be in the same encoding... – dda Dec 05 '12 at 14:38

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 06 '19 at 00:52

This long quiet question, still needs a verified solution! I was successful in displaying Chinese and Korean characters from a UTF-8 encoded Classic ASP script. All I did was simply add the meta charset tag in the head of the document, like so:

<%@ Language=VBScript %>
<% 
  chinese="欢迎" 
%>
<html>
<head>
  <meta charset="UTF-8" />
  ...
</head>
<body>
  <%= chinese %>
</body>
</html>

How to display Chinese characters in classic ASP using response.write

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