Dave
Mon Jan 29 08:28:49 CST 2007
Thanks Anthony
I'll give this a try
"Anthony Jones" <Ant@yadayadayada.com> wrote in message
news:u0iKH66QHHA.4692@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>
> "Dave" <david@nospam.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:j6kvh.61677$v4.34852@newsfe3-win.ntli.net...
>> I have written an asp/vbscript script that returns some personal details
> to
>> a flash frontend using the following code.
>>
>> response.write "vRESPONSE=success&vUSER_ID=45&vNAME=Fred&vCOMPANY=some
>> company"
>>
>> This works fine until the variable value has an ampersand in it i.e
>>
>> response.write "vRESPONSE=success&vUSER_ID=45&vNAME=Fred&vCOMPANY=Fred &
>> Co."
>>
>> and then it fails since it looks like the start of a new variable name.
>>
>> So I then tried to urlencode the values so ampesand became %26, which
> works
>> fine for the ampersand but then some other characters get screwed up,
>> particuarly extended unicide values.
>>
>> Could anyone give me any pointers on how I should be doingf this?
>>
>> Many thanks
>>
>> Dave
>>
>
> I don't know much about flash or how it's reading this data you are
> sending
> it.
>
> However urlencode will use the current codepage to encode a URL. If you
> need to support a wide range of characters you need to be using codepage
> 65001 (UTF-8)
>
>
> Dim lPrevCodePage : lPrevCodePage = Session.CodePage
> Session.CodePage = 65001
>
> sCompany= Server.UrlEncode(sCompany)
>
> Session.CodePage = lPrevCodePage
>
> Response.CharSet = "UTF-8"
>
> Response.Write "vRESPONSE=success&vUSER_ID=45&vNAME=Fred&vCOMPANY=" & _
> sCompany
>
>
> That's not say that'll work it will depend on whether flash actually
> understands it is getting UTF-8 encoding.
>
>