FSO writting symbol to text file

**aconybeare** · Mar 14th, 2007, 11:43 AM

Hi,

I'm having a bit of trouble writting the copyright symbol to a text file here is a cut down version of my page

Strangely when I write "Â©" to file the "©" gets written, but the "Â" is ignored????

Code:

<%@ Language="vbscript" codepage=65001 %>
<%
Option Explicit
Response.Buffer=True
%>
<!DocType html Public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>
<%
Call WriteToFile("First: ""©""" & vbNewLine,"c:\temp\","testdata.txt",True)
Call WriteToFile("Second: ""Â©""" & vbNewLine,"c:\temp\","testdata.txt",False)
%>
</body>
</html>

<%
Sub WriteToFile(sWhat, sPath, sFName, bOverwrite)
	Dim oFile 			' File Object
	Dim oOut 			' File Out Stream
	Const ForReading=1
	Const ForWriting=2
	Const ForAppending=8
	
	Set oFile = Server.CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
	
	Set oOut = oFile.OpenTextFile(sPath & sFName, IIf(bOverwrite,ForWriting,ForAppending), True)

	oOut.Write(sWhat)
	oOut.Close

	Set oOut = Nothing
	Set oFile = Nothing
End Sub

Function IIf(expr,var1,var2)
	If expr Then IIf=var1 Else IIf=var2
End Function
%>

Any help will greatly appreciated

Cheers Al

**gtilles** · Mar 14th, 2007, 05:40 PM

Try replacing with chr(169) for your copyright

Not sure what the other symbol is.
Here is a link to a code converter
http://www.lookuptables.com/
Where you see Numeric rows place that value in chr(?) to get that symbol.
You only need the number not &#

**aconybeare** · Mar 15th, 2007, 03:29 AM

gtilles,

Thanks for your reply, chr(169) produces "t". I'm pretty sure that this is being caused by the -

Code:

<%@ Language="vbscript" codepage=65001 %>
<%
Option Explicit
Response.Buffer=True
%>
<!DocType html Public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
	<title></title>
	<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
</head>
<body>

Just not sure how to get around it. Have searched google without success for "utf-8 copyright symbol chr"

[Edit] - Hmmm maybe not. I've removed them to no effect. When I write to a file from a vb app the symbols output correctly

Cheers Al

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