Generating aspx pages with "UTF-8 with signature"

We are using TS6.1 on Windows 2003 and IIS as TS preview webserver. When we generate an aspx page with content in french/german language the content is getting corrupted. As specified in the article - http://www.upmedia.com/articles/ASPnetCharEncoding.aspx, when we save a file as a utf-8 without signature ASP.NET will not recognize that it is an UTF-8 file and tries to decode with the default encoding method which may result in trash characters. UTF-8 with signature means that the utf-8 encoded file gets the so-called BOM (Byte Order Mark) which indicates what type of decoding had been used. We tried including BOM in the presentation template as per the KB article - https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=49293. Still, it is not working.

Any idea how to make this work?

Regards,
Srilatha

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Adam Stoller

Is your browser set to use UTF-8 encoding?
If not, that might be the problem (i.e. the data may be fine, the presentation of the data in the browser may be what's coming out corrupted)

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com

sharjose

Yes. The encoding in the browser is correctly identified as UTF-8. The data in the aspx is also correct. As per this article, http://www.upmedia.com/articles/ASPnetCharEncoding.aspx, we tried to open the generated aspx in Visual Studio and save it as 'UTF-8 with signature' and then accessed it. It works fine.

Hence, I guess we need to be able to somehow save an aspx generated from TS as 'UTF-8 with signature'. The KB in support site - https://support.interwoven.com/kb/kb_show_article2.asp?ArticleID=49293 seems to provide solution exactly for this issue. But, both the options provided in this do not work. And on further analysis with a hex editor, it looks like even the BOM is getting encoded.

-- Sharon

Migrateduser

I had the same issue a few month back and was able to resolve it by setting a certain parameter in the web.config which will use instruct .NET worker process to UTF-8 encoding. Unfortunately, I could not remember the property name now, this just to give you as a hint.

sharjose

Thanks for the response. The property to be used is fileencoding. But, we have a mix of TS generated files and non-TS generated files in our site. Hence, it is risky to set this property as mentioned in the article - http://www.upmedia.com/articles/ASPnetCharEncoding.aspx

-- Sharon

ramam

Hi All,

I am having a similar problem in displaying Trademark characters in the generated ASPX pages in Teamsite. I have set fileEncoding="utf-8" in web.config.

On the IIS when finally files are deployed, TradeMark type content appears fine. But when I view the file in TeamSite, it appears as garbage.

Any help on this is appreciated.

Regards,
Ramam.M