About Jeff Allen Expertise I can answer basic to intermediate questions related to Classic ASP.I can answer Intermediate to Advanced questions CSS& HTML, and basic questions about JavaScript and Ajax. I can also answer questions related to web page accessibility under US Section 508.
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Expert: Jeff Allen Date: 9/27/2006 Subject: dbcs to unicode
Question Thank you.
However, what the links show are using API in VB. I don't think we can call an API in ASP (I meant VBScript in ASP, not in VB)
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Thanks a lot.
I know the value of a character in "&#xxx;&#xxx;" but don't know its equal in the "&#xxxxx;" format and that is what I am researching. Sorry I didn't make my question clear.
There is an API function for such job, but we cannot use API function in VBScript in ASP...
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Hi Expert Jeff,
I got a very difficult question!
Given the code of a character in format "&#xxx;&#xxx;" where "xxx" is some 3 digit decimal number, convert the code in format "&#xxxxx;" for the same character where "xxxxx" is a 5 digit decimal number.
Do you know how to do this within an ASP page?
Thanks a lot in advance.
Weel
Answer -
There are a number of ways to do this really... but one of the easiest is with a function... THis of course depends onthe fact that you know the value of a character in &#xxx and its equal in the xxxxx digit format..
So to do it with a function in ASP let's write a function called replaceChars(char,num).
public function replaceChars(char,num)
dim error : error = 0
select case num
case 0
'This portion replaces the ASCII character (') with a 5 digit equivalent
char = Trim(Replace(char, " ", " "))'One of these lines per character to be replaced
char = Trim(Replace(char, " ", " "))
replaceChars = char
case 1
'This would take the 5 digit equivalent and replace it witht he correct ASCII code equivalent
char = Trim(Replace(char, " ", " "))'One of these lines per character to be replaced
char = Trim(Replace(char, " ", " "))
replaceChars = char
case else
error = 1
end select
if error <> 0 then
response.write "replaceChars(char,num) error / check your syntax"
end if
end function
Now you'll need to fill in all the &#xxx characters one per line in both case 0 and case 1 as well as matching them with their 5 digit equivalents in each line in both cases.
So in your ASP you would call this like:
<%
replaceChars("&#xxx","xxxxx",0)
%>
to replace the ASCII witht he five digit and like this:
<%
repaceChars("xxxxx","&#xxx".1)
%>
to convert it back so that you are replacing the 5 digit with its ACII equal
Hopefully this helps, otherwise I am out of ideas.
Answer I don't know what else to tell you as I have never had to do this myself. However, you might try asking this question to the folks at either the www.haneng.com ASP forums or possibly the www.sitepoint.com ASP forums, maybe someone there could be of some help.
