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Asked: 2026-05-11T09:28:45+00:00

I’m using a web service for passing information from a bunch of old .asp

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I’m using a web service for passing information from a bunch of old .asp pages to a database. Problem is that using httpGet, I need to encode the info so it can be safely passed.

Everything works like a dream, save for the fact that scandinavian letters such as ä ö and å for example come out as squares. Now I don’t even know whether this has to do with the company IIS language settings (can’t touch them) or something, but I’m wondering if there’s a way to force the asp-page to use a specific encoding, and then force the asp.net web service to decode with the same character-set, without any kind of server settings inbetween getting the chance to mix it all up?

I tried to look around, but didn’t find any clear-cut examples of exactly how you can do this. Please keep the replies simple, I’m just a beginner on internship here. Thanks for the help!

Edit: Apologies. Didn’t include the code because it was so simple I didn’t think it’d reveal anything anyway. Here:

.asp

function loginfo()    Dim text    text = 'ääböö'    text = Server.URLENCODE(text)     message = 'http://server1/logger_webservice/service.asmx/test_Event?' & _             'userID=' & userID    Set objRequest = Server.createobject('MSXML2.XMLHTTP')     With objRequest    .open 'GET', message, False    .setRequestHeader 'Content-Type', 'text/xml'    .send    End With     loginfo = objRequest.responseText end function

web server:

<WebMethod()> _ Public Function test_Event(ByVal userId As String) As Boolean    Dim kirj As StreamWriter    kirj = File.CreateText('C:\Inetpub\server1\Logger_WebService\test_logEvent.txt')     userId = Server.UrlDecode(userId)     kirj.WriteLine('userId = ' & userId)    kirj.Close()    kirj.Dispose() End Function

Anyway, thanks for help. I’ll be looking into this more but as usual, stress and rush is forcing me to move on. I wrote a simple code to encrypt the most used scandinavian letters manually, and decrypted them in the web server. Works fine so far, I just hope there aren’t any complications alter on. Just wanted the basic Finnish letters ä, ö and å anyway. 🙂

I just thought there was some easy method to force the encoding to a specific charset that I just couldn’t find. Tend to be terrible at finding information on my own.

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  1. Without digging into the code, I cannot give you a ‘here it is on line X’ answer, but the issue you are dealing with is one of encoding. There are multiple ways of encoding strings, from ASCII to UTF-8 to full blown Unicode. What this means is Ifforcing full unicode encoding might solve your problem.

    To do this, you can explicitly create your streams (and/or readers/writers) with an encoding. The method is different for different types of objects, and not knowing your code, I cannot give you an explicit answer.

    With ASP, you may still be getting garbage, however. And, it has been so long since I played with classic ASP, I would have to dig to get an answer there. Fortunately, it sounds like you have a way to test the ASP to ensure the correct characters are coming through, so test. If it works, focus on the web service.

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