Is codepage 65001 and utf-8 the same thing?

asp-classic codepages
Mask picture Mask · Oct 27, 2009 · Viewed 93k times · Source 
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!--#include file="conn.asp"-->
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Is the above code right?

Answer

Joey picture Joey · Oct 27, 2009

Yes.

UTF-8 is CP65001 in Windows (which is just a way of specifying UTF-8 in the legacy codepage stuff). As far as I read ASP can handle UTF-8 when specified that way.

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