[thelist] ASP.NET Character Encoding

Fri Oct 14 12:53:39 CDT 2005

All

On the subject of character encoding in .NET, can someone explain to me why the following happens; if possible? 

I have two files, test.asp and test.aspx. The content is as follows:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Character Encoding Test</title>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;" charset="windows-1253" />
	</head>

	<body>
		ÐÑÏÓÏ×Ç: Äåí Ý÷åôå åéóÜãåé ôï E-mail
	</body>
</html>

The ASP file renders in the browser as the correct Greek characters, but the ASP.NET file renders as incorrect characters. Is this something I can address programatically, rather than changing any .NET configuration files? I have found quite a bit of information about .NET and character encoding, but most of it is going over my head at the moment.

Many thanks in advance!

Chris Marsh
Web Developer
http://www.globet.com/
Tel: +44 20 8246 4804 Ext 828
Fax: +44 20 8246 4808

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