We recently experienced problems along these lines (not having to do with jQuery, but getting the charset to "stick). Notes to our team are for UTF-8, but I suppose you could choose whatever character encoding you need. I also found excellent information on a blog post by Ben Nadel (link below) -- particularly discussion in the comments.
The charset must be specified in the documents header. Also the document itself must be written in the same encoding. Having both of these things specified correctly allows the user's browser to automatically determine the character set to use when displaying a page. The document itself must have the character set specified. For HTML: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" > For XML: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> must be the very first thing in the file. That means no whitespace before it, including CR, LF, or BOM. The document must be written in UTF-8: In ColdFusion, you must include <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8"> in the first 1024 bytes of each template; will cause CF and all of CF's string functions to correctly handle "high-ascii" characters. Further, if you are writing the file using the ColdFusion tag CFFILE, make sure you specify the encoding with the attribute charset="utf-8". If you are writing the file using Dreamweaver or some other text-editor, make sure the editor is writing the file as UTF-8. Helpful Links Ben Nadel's function for cleaning high-ascii characters. Most interesting is discussion in the comments of this blog post, particularly posts from "Eric": http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1155-Cleaning-High-Ascii-Values-For-Web-Safeness-In-ColdFusion.htm W3C: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#Slide0270 > >>it won't matter on cf5 > > The problem is when using Javascript files with text encoded in iso-8859 > in it. > If they are included in UTF-8 HTML, they become uncompatible. > If one need to keep an application compatible for both CF 5 and CFMX, better > stick with ISO. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:318316 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
