On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 10:42 PM, Richard Steele wrote: > I'm trying to save a text file that has foreign characters.
If you want to instruct the browser to save a file instead of trying to render it to the user, you need to set a content disposition in combination with a MIME type of application/octet-stream. See RFC 2616 19.5.1. Once your file is placed on the harddisk of the client computer, it is up to the used application on the client computer to infer what charset is in it. Some applications will just presume it is the environment charset, some will presume it is a specific one (like ISO-8859-1), some will try to do some logic. You may be able to help that last category by making sure there is a BOM in your file: http://unicode.org/faq/utf_bom.html#bom10 Jochem -- Jochem van Dieten http://jochem.vandieten.net/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:342508 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
