Classic ASP (VBScript) replace special character in a string is acting strange

Question

In classic ASP (VBScript), when I replace the string, a strange character appears.

<%
    myString = "My Ttitle &#174;"
    myString = Replace(myString,"&#174;", "®")
    Response.Write(myString)
%>

If I print this out to HTML, the final result is (Which has a strange A in it):

My Ttitle ® 

Answer 1

1. add this at the top of your page <%@ language="vbscript" codepage="65001"%>

2. open your file in a text editor, (notepad will do) select Save As from the file menu and choose utf-8 rather than ANSI encoding

3. add in your head section <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> (this isn't actually necessary but it doesn't do any harm)

Further information here

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/InternationalizationAndClassicASP.aspx

Answer 2

Change

myString = Replace(myString,"®", "®")

to

myString = Replace(myString,"®", "®")