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What is wrong with my ASCII code?
Category: Computers > Internet Asked by: sadgrove-ga List Price: $20.00 |
Posted:
24 Oct 2005 08:07 PDT
Expires: 23 Nov 2005 07:07 PST Question ID: 584169 |
I?d like to know why the code in our ecommerce system gets mangled.
And I?d like to know how to correct it.
I?m not a techie and I didn?t write the code. So I need a simple answer.
A good answer would be: ?You can make this code work properly by
amending it to read??
I?ll now explain the sequence of events.
One our website we have a product with a hyperlink - setprodID(8)
If you click on the link, the software collects the data from a file
called data.js, in which we have this line:
new Array("8","Diploma in Garden Design £495 / $938 plus
postage", "","495.00"),
The software passes the information from data.js to a page called
checkout.html. On that page, the information (above) between the first
set of inverted commas shows up correctly as a description -
Diploma in Garden Design £495 / $938 plus postage
But after the customer has added their contact details and clicks
continue, they get taken to a secure payment page where they are
greeted with scrambled text:
Description Diploma in Garden Design £495 / £938 plus postage
Amount £495.00
The amount by the way is correct. It?s only the description that shows incorrectly.
Note that in the checkout page the dollar sign gets translated into a
pound sign (We?re based in the UK, by the way).
And when we get a confirmation email, the text says:
Description of payment: Diploma in Garden Design Ã?£495 / £938 plus postage
Amount Paid (including postage and packing): GBP495.0 |
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Re: What is wrong with my ASCII code?
From: spooky71-ga on 25 Oct 2005 07:01 PDT |
Have you checked you specify the correct codepage when delivering web pages? If you use conventional characters a-zA-Z, numbers and standard punctation.... everything is always okey as is the same everywhere. But for special characters like euro symbol, accented and so on.... they are specific for some countries or regions. When you type you'll always see everything correct. But when you move the document to another computer, the same number (each symbol is a number for the computer) could be translated in something else (when showed) based on the local table. To overcome this.... you have to specify in the document what codepage you espect the document to be shown with. ciao ciao |
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Re: What is wrong with my ASCII code?
From: lazortech-ga on 28 Oct 2005 13:22 PDT |
Hi put this META tag between your <HEAD> tags <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> then just use a £ as normal Cheers Len www.lazortech.com |
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Re: What is wrong with my ASCII code?
From: zorro_paris-ga on 03 Nov 2005 08:45 PST |
you have to specify the charset on the server side of your script eg : in ASP : Response.Charset = "windows-1252" Julien. |
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Re: What is wrong with my ASCII code?
From: bloodphoenix-ga on 03 Nov 2005 12:36 PST |
sadgrove-ga, It's because you have not set your character set correctly, and is reading it as a unrecognized character. Simply put this in between your <head> </head> tags. <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> Thanks, Blood Phoenix |
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