I did something similar for CFFAQ. It supports all sorts of languages, including Chinese and Urdu (a right-to-left language).
Default: http://www.cffaq.com/ Chinese: http://www.cffaq.com/index.cfm?language=cn Urdu: http://www.cffaq.com/index.cfm?language=ur Russian: http://www.cffaq.com/index.cfm?language=ru .... and so on. All data is stored in SQL Server in N data type fields. And UTF-8 is used for all CF pages. The rest just kinda works. All strings, and I do mean every single string, is in a massive externalized string table. And there is an entire admin interface for defining new strings, and then for translators to be presented with strings and to be able to save translations. Works beautifully! (Now if the site was ever updated ...) --- Ben -----Original Message----- From: Randy Messer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2008 4:41 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Chinese characters in CF >We have a client who wants our CF based application to display chinese >characters. We've done a bit of research but haven't been able to pull it >off yet. So, I wanted to see if others have figured that out and have any >words of advice to share. > >Thanks! > >Nick > >........................................................................... .. >..... For What's Its Worth. We have application requiring different languages dependent upon users login. In my situation I built an admin interface listing all phrases that needed to be translated. Translators login and post translated phrases. Action inserts to Db and writes a cfm file. Set up folders for Eng, JP, Sp, etc. For output, to avoid qry each phrase, instead I read the files based on session language var required for page and set as var for output. I also set a session var for the charset, UTF-8, or Shift_JIS for Japanese. Once you have the initial set up, you can add languages with ease. Don't know how this sounds to others, but it works like a charm. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:310069 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
