Article: Q254313
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): 2.0,4.0,5.0
Operating System(s):
Keyword(s): kbASP kbASPObj kbOSWinNT400 kbOSWin2000 kbWebServer kbGrpDSASP kbLocalization kbDSuppor
Last Modified: 15-AUG-2001
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The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0
- Microsoft Active Server Pages, version 2.0
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SYMPTOMS
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When you try to use a session.codepage or @codepage directive in an Active
Server Pages (ASP) page that is hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS) 4.0 Web server, the following error message may occur:
Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0203'
Invalid Code Page
/ProjectName/PageName.asp, line 1
The specified code page attribute is invalid.
If the ASP page is hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Web
server, the following error message may occur:
Active Server Pages, ASP 0203 (0x80004005)
The specified code page attribute is invalid
CAUSE
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Code pages have been disabled for Internet Information Server 4.0 since Windows
NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 because of truncation issues, which caused characters
larger then 2 bytes to be truncated. This created a problem with some
double-byte character sets (DBCS), such as Japanese, that have characters that
extended beyond 2 bytes in size. In Internet Information Services 5.0, the
utf16(1200) and unicodeFFFE(1201) code pages are disabled.
This behavior is by design.
RESOLUTION
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To work around this issue, try the following:
- If you are running Internet Information Server 4.0, upgrade to Internet
Information Services 5.0. The following Unicode code pages are valid in
Internet Information Services 5.0:
65000 - utf-7
65001 - utf-8
- Instead of using Unicode, develop your Web site to be language-specific by
using the appropriate character set in the client HTML. For a complete list
of available HTML character sets and ASP code pages, see the following
Microsoft Web site:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp
Sample Code:
<%@ Language=VBScript CODEPAGE=932%>
<%Session.Codepage=932%>
<!-- This is for the Japanese code page -->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=shift_jis">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
MORE INFORMATION
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Steps to Reproduce Behavior:
1. Host an ASP page on a computer that is running Internet Information Server
4.0 or Internet Information Services 5.0.
2. Add the following code to the page:
<%@ Language=VBScript codepage=1200%>
<!-- This is for the UTF 16 code page -->
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=utf16">
</HEAD>
<BODY>
</BODY>
</HTML>
3. Save the page, and then view the page in the browser.
REFERENCES
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For additional information, click the article number below to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
Q232580 INF: Storing UTF-8 Data in SQL Server
Additional query words: code pages localization international 0203 (0x80004005)
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Keywords : kbASP kbASPObj kbOSWinNT400 kbOSWin2000 kbWebServer kbGrpDSASP kbLocalization kbDSupport
Technology : kbiisSearch kbAudDeveloper kbASPsearch kbiis500 kbiis400
Version : :2.0,4.0,5.0
Issue type : kbprb
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