This solution may work.
Place this code at the top of your application.cfm
<cfparam name="problem_solved" default="false">
<cfif problem_solved is "false">
<cfset problem_solved = "true">
<script>
alert("Everything looks fine now, the problem has been
fixed. Pay no attention to any error messages
received after this point. The system is working
normally. Please send John Stanley $250.00");
</script>
</cfif>
;-P
-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Hoffman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 1:53 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: Character Encoding - Reward Offered!
Ignore my last.
Regards,
Eric J Hoffman
DataStream Connexion
www.datastreamconnexion.com
Delivering Creative Data Solutions
-----Original Message-----
From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 12:35 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Character Encoding - Reward Offered!
I added a field with the full XML response from UPS. In case anyone
is interested. :)
On 2/5/03, Bud penned:
>OK. $250.00 reward to the first person who can tell me what I'm doing
>wrong or give me evidence/show me how to prove that UPS is returning
>the wrong character set. Knowing UPS, I suspect it's the latter.
>
>Here is the page:
>
>http://dev.cf-ezcart.com/registerups/
>
>Click Next.
>
>The text in the top textarea field is being returned by UPS which I'm
>stripping from the XML. It is all screwed up. Most notably the French
>text at the bottom, but also trademark symbols and such.
>
>The text in the bottom textarea field is the hard-coded text they sent
>to me which I pasted in and displays properly.
>
>I'm using this at the top of the template:
><cfset setEncoding("form","iso-8859-1")>
><cfset setEncoding("URL","iso-8859-1")>
><cfcontent type="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
>
>This is in the HTML HEAD tag:
><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;
>charset=iso-8859-1">
>
>I tried using <CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE pageencoding="iso-8859-1"> in both
>the template and the custom tag I'm calling but it didn't make a
>difference.
>
>CFMX server. CrystalTech.
>
>Here is the response from UPS Tech support. They are absolutely no
>help:
>
>***
>Thank you for your email. Due to the many environments and ways which
>customers can implement the XML Tools, we do not support code directly
>and provide source code samples for reference only. Unfortunately we
>can not provide you with access to a cold fusion developer, we do
>however provide Visual Basic and Java source code samples that employ
>the ISO-8859-1 standard. The ISO-8859-1 character-set is necessary to
>be able to use the special French characters and is returned by our
>servers please reference the header of our XML response which contains
>the encoding specification of ISO-8859-1. Since the French charter-set
>is not being properly displayed in the web page we anticipate that your
>program is manipulating the encoding of the text and setting the
>encoding to UTF-8 or UTF-16. Please review your programming
>environment.
--
Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations
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ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452
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