IIS showing $ instead of ? on asp page

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majek - 27 Sep 2003 06:48 GMT

I just built an asp page taking values from sql server and need the currency
in ?. this worked for about a week and now my currency has changed to $ how
do I correct this. My system locale is set to ?

Thanks

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Bob Barrows - 27 Sep 2003 14:06 GMT

> I just built an asp page taking values from sql server and need the
> currency in ?. this worked for about a week and now my currency has
> changed to $ how do I correct this. My system locale is set to ?
>
> Thanks

Your system's locale may be set to pounds, but the settings for the IUSR
account may not. This can happen if you've had to reinstall IIS, creating a
new IUSR account with the default settings, which happen to be US $. Log in
as IUSR and see if the settings need to be changed.

You should not rely on the IUSR account's settings being correct. You would
be better off creating a function that appends the proper curency symbol to
whatever value is passed to it and returns it as a string which can be
written to the response.

HTH,
Bob Barrows

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Ken Schaefer - 28 Sep 2003 03:28 GMT

You can force the locale in your ASP page:

http://support.microsoft.com/?id=229690

Cheers
Ken

: I just built an asp page taking values from sql server and need the currency
: in ?. this worked for about a week and now my currency has changed to $ how
: do I correct this. My system locale is set to ?
:
: Thanks

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IIS showing $ instead of ? on asp page