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Topic: CardÂ Type

Posted By: loracady
Subject: CardÂ Type
Date Posted: 28-October-2008 at 11:15am

I use authorize.net, and my gwAuthorizeAIM.asp page says,

"CardÂ Type:"

instead of "Card Type:"

This weird "Â" is nowhere to be found in the code for this page. How does it get there and how can I make it go away?

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 28-October-2008 at 11:54am

Hi, Check includes/languages.asp - In the copy I have here the line to look for is :-
dictLanguage.Add "english_GateWay_12", "Card Type: "

BTW - I took a look at your site with Firefox & didn't see the "Â" when I got to the page.

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Editing ProductCart Code?

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Posted By: loracady
Date Posted: 28-October-2008 at 12:07pm

Hi Hamish- Thanks for your reply. I took a look at languages, but that crazy A is not there either. Maybe it is just an IE thing.

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Posted By: Hamish
Date Posted: 28-October-2008 at 12:21pm

It's a character encoding issue, for sure, but quite what's happening on your page I'm not clear.
Found on another site :

The character Â is 0xC2 in ISO-8859-1. It is also the first byte of the two byte encoding that utf-8 uses to express some characters.

UTF-8 uses a single byte to express all characters with values between 0 and 127. Anything character from ISO-8859-1 that has a value between 128 and 255 requires two bytes to encode it. Anything between 128 and 191 (inclusive) will have a first byte of 0xC2, and if you read it as ISO-8859-1 instead of UTF-8, you will see a Â.

What does this really mean?

This is a Yen: "¥"
This is a Yen, if you read it wrong: "Â¥"

It looks fine, because in ISO-8859-1, a yen is 0xA5. And in UTF-8 a yen is 0xC2A5. So the character looks okay but there's junk at the start.

Nonbreaking space is 0xA0 in ISO-8859-1, and when it comes up in UTF-8 it is 0xC2A0. This will look like "Â ". I used the Yen example above because it's easier to see something rather than just a space.

Even if the text in languages.asp looks correct in an editor it MAY contain hidden characters that are being displayed as a space in your editor, but as "Â" by the browser. Try putting a fresh, hand coped copy of the line in the languages file and deleting the existing copy. It's worth a try.

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Editing ProductCart Code?

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Posted By: loracady
Date Posted: 28-October-2008 at 1:45pm

Hi Hamish- I created new copies of gwAuthorizeAIM.asp and the languages file, and then deleted the line on both and then re-typed the line. It didn't work when I uploaded the new languages file, but it worked when I uploaded the new gwAuthorizeAIM.asp file. Now the crazy Â is gone. Thanks for the advice! I would never have thought to do that.

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