>>Yep. So, this is the wrong name for the attribute. There should be an >>encoding attribute and a charset attribute.
Who cares? As far as Internet is concerned, there is no difference. The only problem will be when (and if) UTF-8 is used to represent something else that Unicode, which is not close to happen. >>Allaire got this wrong and it should be corrected, IMHO. Allaire has been wrong in several issues in their design, but in not this event, ie: Meta tags and HTTP headers, there is nothing they could do. When they have an attribute "charset=", it is just intended to pass a value to the charset attribute used in the HTTP header. What is your point? Should we write: <CFHEADER encoding="UTF-8"> in order to generate a header containing charset="UTF-8" ? This is ridiculous. The W3C got ot wrong, but not Allaire. >>There is no such thing as converting a character set from 8859-1 to UTF-8. You're not slouthing 8859-1 characters to UTF-8, you're rendering the page UTF-8 using content that's charset s 8859-1 charset. This is right, but as far as Internet is concerned, these considerations are purely academic. >>CF 5, by default renders the page UTF-7. That is your problem. UTF-7? CF5? What are you talking about? By default, CF5 sends 8bits characters, whatever the charset you use. If your text is iso-8859-1, then no problem, this is the charset used by default by most browsers. You better specify it in some META tag though. CFMX renders the page UTF-8, THAT's my problem. >>If you're seeing some type of garbling because you're rendering the page in UTF-7, all you have to do is tell the browser (via CF) to render the page UTF-8, just like you would do through your browser options. My feeling is that you didn't follow the thread completely: I have an application in CF5, not able to understand UTF-8, which is CFHTTPing another page from another server under CFMX which renders the content in UTF-8. I have no control on the CFMX server, and It is out of question I convert all my CF5 application to use UTF-8 instead of iso-8859-1. So the solution is CF_CharsetConvert which works pretty well, even with no Java. -- _______________________________________ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:260965 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
