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From: "Joe Fawcett" <joefawcett@----------.------>
To: NULL
Date: 10/2/2005 7:18:00 AM

"brb" <b_bertan@h...> wrote in message 
news:uBGylL1xFHA.1256@T......
>I am trying to return XML through an ASP page and it simply fails when the XML 
>contains characters with ascii value is > 128.  While I generate my data 
>dynamically, this simple example -- note the currency symbol -- displays the 
>same error: "An invalid character was found in text content.". It displays 
>properly if I use a $ instead of the £
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> <%@ Language=VBScript %>
> <%Response.ContentType="text/xml"%>
> <%
> Response.Write "<?xml version=""1.0"" encoding=""UTF-8""?>"
> Response.Write "<text>Cost £200</text>"     %>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks,
>
> --Brian
>
Try adding:
Response.CodePage = 65001
Response.CharSet = "utf-8"

before your response.write statements.
The first response.write setting the XML declaration can be missed out.

-- 

Joe

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