HI All

I'm exporting data from Oracle DB to CSV files using Classic ASP. All is good here except some issues with special chars. The Special chars get garbled when the file size is increasing.

Look at my code..

The lines in the code are the options I tried.

Here is the code

' Create the CSV file
Response.Clear
Response.ContentType = "text/plain;charset=utf-8;"
'Response.AddHeader "Content-Type", "text/csv;charset=UTF-8"
Response.AddHeader "Content-Disposition", "attachment;filename=Data.csv"
'Response.CharSet = "utf-8"

' Writing data
Response.write data

The special chars in this row is part of the CSV file

"testing special chars dès 196 vol+ hôtel"

is completely getting junk when the file size is big (may be 1000 records). But when the file size is small (may be 20 records) it is perfectly good.

BAsed on some parameters (user selection) in the webpage & clicking on the submit button, I'm calling an ASP file that creates the CSV file.



Plz help me. I badly need this..
Thanks
Bobbie

Further to my comments if you are opening your CSV in Excel and wondering why the UTF-8 encoding isn't working, don't worry this is a side effect of how Excel identifies UTF-8 CSV data.

Try adding this before writing your output

'BOM to dup Excel into encoding the CSV correctly instead of using ASCII!!!
Call Response.BinaryWrite(ChrB(239) & ChrB(187) & ChrB(191))