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Q254313: Err Msg: Active Server Pages Error ‘ASP 0203’ Invalid Code

Article: Q254313
Product(s): Internet Information Server
Version(s): 2.0,4.0,5.0
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbASP kbASPObj kbOSWinNT400 kbOSWin2000 kbWebServer kbGrpDSASP kbLocalization kbDSuppor
Last Modified: 15-AUG-2001

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Internet Information Services version 5.0 
- Microsoft Internet Information Server 4.0 
- Microsoft Active Server Pages, version 2.0 
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SYMPTOMS
========

When you try to use a session.codepage or @codepage directive in an Active
Server Pages (ASP) page that is hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information
Server (IIS) 4.0 Web server, the following error message may occur:

  Active Server Pages error 'ASP 0203'
  Invalid Code Page
  /ProjectName/PageName.asp, line 1
  The specified code page attribute is invalid.

If the ASP page is hosted on a Microsoft Internet Information Services 5.0 Web
server, the following error message may occur:

  Active Server Pages, ASP 0203 (0x80004005)
  The specified code page attribute is invalid

CAUSE
=====

Code pages have been disabled for Internet Information Server 4.0 since Windows
NT 4.0 Service Pack 4 because of truncation issues, which caused characters
larger then 2 bytes to be truncated. This created a problem with some
double-byte character sets (DBCS), such as Japanese, that have characters that
extended beyond 2 bytes in size. In Internet Information Services 5.0, the
utf16(1200) and unicodeFFFE(1201) code pages are disabled.

This behavior is by design.

RESOLUTION
==========

To work around this issue, try the following:

- If you are running Internet Information Server 4.0, upgrade to Internet
  Information Services 5.0. The following Unicode code pages are valid in
  Internet Information Services 5.0:

  65000 - utf-7
  65001 - utf-8

- Instead of using Unicode, develop your Web site to be language-specific by
  using the appropriate character set in the client HTML. For a complete list
  of available HTML character sets and ASP code pages, see the following
  Microsoft Web site:

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/Author/dhtml/reference/charsets/charset4.asp

  Sample Code:

  <%@ Language=VBScript CODEPAGE=932%>
  <%Session.Codepage=932%>
  <!-- This is for the Japanese code page -->
  <HTML>
  <HEAD>
  <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=shift_jis">
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
  </BODY>
  </HTML>

MORE INFORMATION
================

Steps to Reproduce Behavior:

1. Host an ASP page on a computer that is running Internet Information Server
  4.0 or Internet Information Services 5.0.

2. Add the following code to the page:

  <%@ Language=VBScript codepage=1200%>
  <!-- This is for the UTF 16 code page -->
  <HTML>
  <HEAD>
  <META NAME="GENERATOR" Content="Microsoft Visual Studio 6.0">
  <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=utf16">
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
  </BODY>
  </HTML>

3. Save the page, and then view the page in the browser.

REFERENCES
==========

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article
in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  Q232580 INF: Storing UTF-8 Data in SQL Server

Additional query words: code pages localization international 0203 (0x80004005)

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Keywords          : kbASP kbASPObj kbOSWinNT400 kbOSWin2000 kbWebServer kbGrpDSASP kbLocalization kbDSupport 
Technology        : kbiisSearch kbAudDeveloper kbASPsearch kbiis500 kbiis400
Version           : :2.0,4.0,5.0
Issue type        : kbprb

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