I've been encountering this same issue. A fellow told me to enforce ISO 8559. I did a bit of poking around and found this meta tag being used here and there;
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> I haven't really put it to the test myself yet, but that's supposed to knock out those odd Word characters. What I'd done before is do a Replace() function on each character with the normal ASCII character I wanted, before writing to my DB. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
