I run an old classic asp website with an old school access db. I don't know very much about programming, enough that I've kept this dinosaur online and made some decent modifications to it over the years.

Question.. I moved everything to godaddy and have been having a blast trying to fix everything that doesn't work right. So far so good but there a bug that really has me puzzled.

I've been getting weird characters from the database. my .asp pages don't like ' or " marks or else it replaces normal characters with those marks instead. Almost like the .asp code itself is not being parsed correctly. I wonder if there is a mismatch at the server level. What happens if you run asp 2.x on an asp 1.1 server? I honestly don't know what it is. i estimate the age of the script to be 10+ years old. These errors were not happening with my old web host so I really wonder if its something in the server doing it.

Thanks for any suggestions,
Chris

example here:
Azbackcountry - Tech

the first two worda are Firestick dome but its displaying Fir'stik dom' When I go to edit the data the words are spelled correctly. They just display incorrectly.

I know that ASP doesn't like those characters as it interferes with the code. I would do a find and replace in your access db to get rid of them (replace with one of these `) and then try your pages.

Also for future your asp pages should use the find replace function i.e.
<%

sMyString = "they're"
sMyString = Replace(sMyString, "'", "`")

Response.Write sMyString = they`re

%>

I'm think could be the keyboard lay out on the server I know the server not doing the data entry but

as you say only the server has change ???

You'll have to post the code responsible for emitting the markup if you want a good shot at a resolution.

I recommend pastebin.