>bert db wrote: >> I have some report created with the report builder MX7. I am running into >> some problems with the charset it uses. Some of my users have put some exotic > >"exotic"? not to them i imagine.
Probably not to them ;-) If only everybody used only ASCII chars our job would be a lot easier ;-) > >> caracters in text fields (principally the 'â¬' sign). I have no problems >> within my coldfusion pages but in the generated pdf, it prints out as a '?'. > >plain cf/html works ok? the cfr is called from a simple cf page where I define the query, and when in that page I do a simple cfoutput of the info it prints correctly. > >> I was wondering if anybody knows how to specify the charset that the builder >> should use, or if anybody knows the charset used by the report builder (there >> is always a way to change the charset returned by the DB). I have looked in >> the docs but could not find anything about this. > >press F8 to get the preferences dialog (for some strange reason it's under the >"edit" menu), the "PDF character encoding" value should be "Identity-H" not >windows codepage 1252 (cp-1252 which i think doesn't contain the euro). I tried this option, it did remove the '?' character, but unfortunately it does not print anything. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:313846 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
