Recently working with PayPal and Classic ASP I stumbled unto a problem where French characters were being encoded and displayed as unreadable text. It turns out that PayPal returns the result to you using UTF-8. In C# this would be an easy fix. Language characters can be tough in classic ASP. I had searched for quite a while until I found the following code:
function URLDecode(sConvert)
Dim JSEngine
Set JSEngine = CreateObject("MSScriptControl.ScriptControl")
JSEngine.Language = "JScript"
sConvert = Replace(sConvert, "+", " ")
URLDecode = JSEngine.CodeObject.decodeURIComponent(sConvert)
end fucntion
This solved my issue, but it took forever to find the solution. I hope this can save someone else time.
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