# plugins.http.getPageData and character encoding

**URL:** <https://forum.servoy.com/t/plugins-http-getpagedata-and-character-encoding/8671>\
**Category:** Classic Servoy\
**Created:** [January 31, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/plugins-http-getpagedata-and-character-encoding/8671 "2008-01-31T05:52:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![JapanDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@JapanDev](https://forum.servoy.com/u/JapanDev)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2008, 5:52am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/plugins-http-getpagedata-and-character-encoding/8671/1 "2008-01-31T05:52:09Z")

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The plugin http.getPageData will not get text from a page encoded in Shift-JIS or other Asian languages. It gets the page but the Shift-JIS text is scrambled. I suppose it won’t do other complex encodings in other countries too.

In Japan many web site pages are still encoded this way and will be for awhile unfortunately.

I will make a support case.

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**Author:** ![Andrei\_Costescu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e36b37/32.png) [@Andrei\_Costescu](https://forum.servoy.com/u/Andrei_Costescu)\
**Post date:** [February 11, 2008, 2:02pm UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/plugins-http-getpagedata-and-character-encoding/8671/2 "2008-02-11T14:02:03Z")

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The issue is corrected in Servoy 3.5.4. The result of saving the content to a file is the same as if you would do “open source” and “save”.  
Please re-open it if this is not the expected behavior.

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**Author:** ![JapanDev](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b38774/32.png) [@JapanDev](https://forum.servoy.com/u/JapanDev)\
**Post date:** [February 12, 2008, 1:03am UTC](https://forum.servoy.com/t/plugins-http-getpagedata-and-character-encoding/8671/3 "2008-02-12T01:03:16Z")

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Thanks for fixing this so fast!

Steve