utf-8 problem V6 asp

[kdoucette]

I am using Zoom V6, platform is ASP, pages being indexed have charset = utf-8 and I have configured Zoom to use unicode/utf-8 as the charset. Several pages use – for an en-dash character. The search results are garbling this character and displaying –.

The site is at http://204.14.165.177/ - use CALSTART as the keyword and you'll see the issue.

Any help you could give would be appreciated!

[David]

We'll have a look at it.
As a quick work around you could use the normal ASCII hyphen.

[Ray]

Your search page is here with the CALSTART query submitted:
http://204.14.165.177/searchewd.asp?zoom_query=CALSTART&submit.x=20&subm it.y=16

"searchewd.asp" appears to be your own script. It seems to be wrapping our script, "search.asp", which is here:
http://204.14.165.177/search.asp?zoom_query=CALSTART&submit.x=20&submit. y=16

Now if you go to the latter URL, you'll see that the search results provided by Zoom did not have a problem with the dash character. The cause is most likely because your script is re-encoding the (already correct) UTF-8 output from Zoom, and treating it as if it was not encoded, thus corrupting the character. You'll need to fix this in your "searchewd.asp" script.

[kdoucette]

server charset was interferring - thanks for helping

Hi Ray,

Thank you for looking at this issue. The server was set for iso-8859-1, so I had to regenerate the Zoom output with that charset and also set my asp program's charset to iso-8859-1 rather than utf-8. It is now working.

Again, thanks for your help and your explanation.

Kathy