I have somehow a Chinese hyperlink in my page linked to an excel file somewhere in the server.
But the problem is the link doesn't work!
When I see at the status bar when I hover to the link, the Chinese character become a bunch of number and I think that is why the link to the excel file is not working?
Tested in IE7, the link is completely empty.

Can this be solved using some kind of character encoding?
I heard about this big5 encoding but don't know how to apply them!
Can someone help me

Cheers...

This post has been edited by Monie: Jan 1 2009, 07:40 PM

could you give us a link to your site mate?

The site that I am developing can be accessed locally inside the company only.
It's actually a link to an excel file (Asset Purchase Requisition Form 资产申购表.xls), as you can see the file name consist of chinese character.
The link work if I change the file name throwing the chinese character, but it doesn't work if the chinese character is there!

Any reason for this?
I've been chased 3 time today from my boss for this
Cheers...

As far as I was aware, http:// url's can only contain ascii characters. You might want to check for the URL character codes for them and use those in the page.

The thing is this page that I am developing is similar to directory browsing, which means all the link is directly from the folder inside the server.
That means I cannot change the link that you are suggesting earlier
The script I took and modified from this page

For me, the plain link with chinese chars in the url works fine. Have you tried url encoding the chinese chars e.g.


Dave

I can do just that and it work... But the problem is I can't do that!
I can not change the file name of that link or change any of it! What I can do is just display whatever file in the server to this page!
That means if the file name is abcdef.xls, the link to the file will be abcdef.xls too!

I have tried URL Encode but it didnt work!!!
Please help me guys

Have you tried htmlspecialchars()? That might work...

Wasn't that a PHP function? I am writing in Classic ASP...
I tried with Server.HTMLencode() but it is not working as well...

This post has been edited by Monie: Jan 7 2009, 04:43 AM

Unfortunately I don't know asp, but if you URL encode the link, what does it give it you?
Using php htmlspecialchars() and htmlentities() didn't work when I tested.

It give me "HTTP 404 - File not found" error message!
How come this problem has no solution!
This thing like this is making me pissed off!!!

Can anyone try to create a link to an excel file that have a chinese character inside that file name and see if the link is ok???
If it is ok for all of you, that means this thing have a solution, but if you have the same problem, then what would be the golden solution?

Anyway, thanks djeyewater for doing some testing for me...
I did the test buy no luck I guess!

This post has been edited by Monie: Jan 8 2009, 10:30 PM

But what does the actual link look like? If you can post what the link to the file looks like (view source in the generated html page) then it will help diagnose what asp is doing to the filename that breaks the link.
e.g. The links generated by my PHP test look like this:

Its actually a complete directory browsing script that I've downloaded and modified!

The ASP code that produce the link is this:
<% Response.Write "<a class='browse' href=" & ImgDirectory & "/" & escape(DisplayName) & "/" & escape(strFileName) & ">" & strFileName & "</a>" %>

Which produce this HTML code:
<a class='browse' href=ISO-Library/Manufacturing/Xuyi%20Wantotik%20Bestsil%20Mining%20Industries%20Co.%20Ltd/WBM%20-%20PROCUREMENT/Form/Asset%20Purchase%20Requisition%20Form%20资产申购表.xls>Asset Purchase Requisition Form 资产申购表.xls</a>

How the hell should I put "资产申购表" inside the href link to produce a nice clean link like this:
<a class='browse' href=ISO-Library/Manufacturing/Xuyi%20Wantotik%20Bestsil%20Mining%20Industries%20Co.%20Ltd/WBM%20-%20PROCUREMENT/Form/Asset%20Purchase%20Requisition%20Form%20%资产申购表.xls>Asset Purchase Requisition Form 资产申购表.xls</a>

or how should I make the link work eventually! I am tired

This post has been edited by Monie: Jan 9 2009, 11:20 PM

Okay, I tried the link that asp is producing and it works fine for me, so I don't know what could be causing the link not to work I'm afraid. I did note that you don't have quote marks around the url, but it worked fine for me anyway without the quote marks. Maybe try Server.URLEncode() instead of escape() and see what the URL looks like that it produces.

Dave

I am really very much confused about this!!!
I have uploaded the system (ASP) in the company server and guess what??? All of the link is working fine!
What makes me confused is why it is not working in my PC?

Any third party application or maybe there is some default window setting that need to be activated (ticked) in order for the Chinese character being understood by the system (IIS)?
I still need to make this script run fine in my own PC.
Thanks...

I think probably you'll need to post your question to an IIS/asp forum to get an answer. I did a quick google search, and it came up with an article on IIS 6.0 Security, but it says ANSI, DBCS and UTF-8 encoded URLs should be accepted by default:


This post has been edited by djeyewater: Jan 14 2009, 07:10 AM

Thanks for the tips mate
Appreciated it!

on your pc/server do you have chinese language installed cause windows "english" might not recognise it locally if that makes sense not very good at ASP just thought would try to help

Thanks
Aaron