ie7 and UTF8 problems in classic asp

Question

I'm having problems with utf-8 coming up as squares in ie7. It works fine in firefox, opera, camino and safari.

One of the many characters that I'm trying to use is ✱ - Which is ✱. IE7 has this problem with characters used in this notation or pulled from the database (All other browsers display the characters correctly).

My head contains the following meta tag:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

I'm also sending the following commands in my response:

Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"

I can't seem to get it to work and unfortunately my biggest userbase is using IE.

Any solutions?

Answer 1

Sounds like a problem with your version of IE7 ;) If all other browsers work fine and IE7 not ...

BTW, the "star"-like character you mention in your question looks fine in IE7 on my machine...

Answer 2

it's worth double checking what encoding IE7 is set to, have you got it set to auto or is it set to use a different character set? Sometimes simply resetting it to auto can fix the issue

Answer 3

Have you remembered to save the file in UTF-8 format? This could also make a difference...