Since they were using a Windows code page before (1252) I was striving to keep it simple. There are several others that can be used if you know the code page numbers used by Windows.
I have found (however) that some non-MS implementations of ASP do not support all code pages, which makes 1251 a bit safer (IMHO). MichKa Michael Kaplan Trigeminal Software, Inc. -- http://www.trigeminal.com/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Otto Stolz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Michael Kaplan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 4:46 AM Subject: Re: Database To Web Browser > Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote: > > > The @CODEPAGE directive or Session.CodePage property must be set > > > to 1251 for cyrillic text to properly be sent from ASP code to > > > the browser. > > Why only that one? What about ISO-8859-5, KOI8-R, CP 855, or UTF-8, > to name only a few popular ones of the myriad of encodings for > cyrillic text? Cf. <http://czyborra.com/charsets/cyrillic.html>. > > So, the programmer has to consider the following questions: > > - In which encoding shall I keep my own data? > (henceforth: "Reference encoding") > > - In which encoding shall I present my WWW page to the reader's browser? > > - How can I convert my reference encoding to the encoding for the browser? > This one is answered above, I guess. > > - How do I inform the browser of the encoding I have chosen? > This one is easy: cf. > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/charset.html#h-5.2.2>. > > - In which encoding will the browser report the user's entries to my > script, either server-side (GGI, PHP), or client-side (Java, Javascript)? > > - Can the user choose another encoding than I have proposed, and if so, > how can my script determine the encoding chosen? > > - How can my script convert the user's input to my reference encoding? > > I really do not know the answer to most of these questions, and I'd be > happy to learn about them. (In particular pertaining to HTML forms and > server-side PHP scripts). > > Best wishes, > Otto Stolz > >
