Output UTF-8 text from ASP script

I had to write an application that outputs CSV text encoded as UTF-8 from an ASP script. This is what I've ended with:

Sub OutputCSV(finalText)
  Response.Clear
  Response.Charset = "utf-8"
  Response.ContentType = "text/plain"
  Response.Codepage = 65001
  Response.Write finalText
  Response.End
End Sub

In my application, the complete CSV data was stored in the finalText variable. If that's not the case, replace the Response.Write statement with the CSV-generating logic.

CSV format specifications

If you ever need to know specifics about Comma-Separated-Values (CSV) format, this is probably as good as you'll get. More about using XSLT to generate CSV files in an upcoming post :)