Thanks for the replies. The short answer is that we've begun taking some content on our site (stored mostly in a SQL Server) and outputting RSS feeds. Some of the content is entered by end-users, and so sometimes they paste in odd characters like ü and so forth. SQL, CFMX and most modern browsers seem fine with handling those characters as they are. However, XML is not nearly so friendly with characters like that.
I realized after I wrote this post that the simplest thing to do in RSS is to replace ü with u (and so on), but the issue still stands that I need some function that can parse through a block of text, find the odd characters, and at the very least, convert it to it's character code equivalent. Unless there's a better way of handling this for RSS in general. Thanks again, Ben Mueller >Yes, a 'why' may uncover a better solution. Most people usually want to do >this because they see odd characters when outputting data from their access >database because they aren?t using the Unicode driver > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 Experience Flex 2 & MX7 integration & create powerful cross-platform RIAs http:http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;56760587;14748456;a?http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=LVNU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:268108 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
