Good Afternoon
I am working on a data centre migration project which hosts several Classic ASP Sites running in IIS6 on Windows 2003 R2 64Bit. We are migrating all the sites Windows 2012/R2. All the sites I have migrated so far have worked fine except one. The site it self works but I keep running into problems with some parts of the site which in-turn ether causes an error in the ASP or something does not display correctly.
I had a problem with the "copy-write" mark being displayed, after a couple off hours of investigation I noticed the classic ASP pages had been saved in ANSI, a quick open and re-save of 3 files to UTF-8 fixed this one problem.
But this encoding issue seems to be a bigger issue as I have another part of the site which access some files that are located on a network share and the files are saved in ANSI/UNI-CODE. Yes I could just go and save everything into UTF-8 but I do not have control over the files on the network share and if I save them as UTF-8 they could be re-saved by a developer as ANSI/UNI-CODE.
I don't know if this is a windows server issue or an IIS issue, but it seems to be an issue with either the server or IIS does not like any other type of file encoding other than UTF-8. If anyone has seen anything like this before or has any thoughts that would be very helpful.
Richard