Hi, Problem has been solved.
The problem occurred because the editor, Dreamweaver, was set to encode the file as UTF-8. There is more than one unicode normalization form and you can also include the Unicode signature in a file. The default settings we had appended the characters  (in hex/8-bit format they are ef bb bf) and this resulted in ColdFusion not being able to render properly the file. The problem was quickly solved by changing the file encoding. Technically, the problem was solved by removing the BOM (which is the UTF-8 byte order mark, and this is optional). In this was ColdFusion/Java created the file exactly as expected. Kind Regards, Joseph. >Joseph Bugeja wrote: >> characters using the CHR function. This is a bit strange. Can you identify >> why? > >your editor, whatever that is. > >> So what I am saying is that I must explicitly set the cfprocessingdirective > >you should be using this tag religiously, including any files via cfinclude. >the >only way things are getting messed up using that tag is if your files aren't >utf-8 encoded. > >> tag to store UTF-8 characters, however when I insert this tag in an existing >> file we are still left with this problem but instead we use CHR function to >> store these strings. > >most likely it's your editor. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:312927 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
