Because the world does not speak only Western European languages either. UTF-8 allows for Asian and other languages too. Just do the second option below and you don't have to worry about UTF-8.
-----Original Message----- From: Gabriel Robichaud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 22 March 2005 1:24 To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: french character problem is this a joke? Is this really how I solve this problem? I just saw this message. How on earth do i convert ALL my files? One by one? is there an easy way to do this? Can I do this in Dreamweaver? And why the hell did MM do something so F&(*)ING STUPID. HELLO THE WORLD DOES NOT ONLY SPEAK ENGLISH. TIA Gabriel On Sun, 27 Feb 2005 18:09:51 -0500, Claude Schneegans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have a bunch of french characters, not even being read from a > > >>database, straight text, that will not display properly when thay > >>are inside a .cfm template. > > Ah ah, j'ai eu ce probl�me-l� moi aussi mon vieux ! > I suppose you are under CFMX, or that you recently moved to CFMX? > The problem is that CFMX is now forcing all text to be UTF-8. > I know it is a real plus, but for us using only European languages for > which ISO-8859-whatever was perfectly doing the job, it is a PITA. > The solutions: > 1� use an editor able to create files in UTF-8, and convert all your existing files in UTF-8 > (This was suggested here by someone else, so please don't shoot me > ;-) 2� add this in your Application.cfm: > <CFSET CFversion = listGetAt(server.coldfusion.productVersion, 1)> > <CFIF CFversion GT 5> > <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> > <cfset setEncoding("url","ISO-8859-1")> > <cfset setEncoding("form","ISO-8859-1")> </CFIF> (the test for > the version is not mandatory, especially if you have the same version > on your development and production server.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:199643 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
