>grabbing some data from another server running CFMX 6.1 on Unix with
>MySql via a webservice. Seems the data we get is not displaying
>correctly. Things like the - char display as a wierd backward E among
>other things. Is there a way to mod the returned data? Or does the
>source have to be cleaned up?
Wild guess - the source contains characters from the Windows 1252 character
set which are not included in ISO-Latin1 or Unicode. Seems a bit odd seeing
as the source is a Unix machine (usually UTF-8 encoded Unicode characters),
but I suppose it's possible.
Can you determine what character code the weird backward E is? This can be
done using JS btw (String.charCodeAt()). It may be code position 150, which
is used by Windows 1252 for en dash. In CFMX, which as far as I know uses
the Unicode character set (UTF-8 encoding) by default and does not support
Windows 1252, the character at code position 150 cannot be printed because
code positions 128-159 are reserved for control characters in Unicode
(note: Unicode is a superset of ISO-Latin1 so the same applies to Latin1).
Warning: I'm actually running CF5, so I might have made a mistake here - no
doubt somebody will point it out if that's the case.
Here's a code snippet from the Html property in Speck CMS which will
convert these Windows 1252 characters into their nearest counterpart in
Latin1 or a html entity. You could alternatively convert them to their
Unicode equivalents, but you'll need to figure out that mapping yourself ;)
if ( convertWin1252 ) {
// convert windows 1252 chars to nearest latin1 or html entity
lFind =
"#chr(128)#,#chr(130)#,#chr(131)#,#chr(132)#,#chr(133)#,#chr(134)#,#chr(135)#,#chr(136)#,#chr(137)#,#chr(138)#,#chr(139)#,#chr(140)#,#chr(142)#,#chr(145)#,#chr(146)#,#chr(147)#,#chr(148)#,#chr(149)#,#chr(150)#,#chr(151)#,#chr(152)#,#chr(153)#,#chr(154)#,#chr(155)#,#chr(156)#,#chr(158)#,#chr(159)#";
lReplace =
"€,‚,ƒ,„,…,†,‡,ˆ,‰,Š,‹,Œ,&##381;,‘,’,“,”,•,–,—,#chr(126)#,™,š,›,œ,&##382;,Ÿ";
inHTML = replaceList(inHTML, lFind, lReplace);
}
Mark
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