On 2/23/2011 9:12 PM, =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Claude_Schn=E9egans wrote: > If it contains special characters above 127, they will be interpreted in the > default character set of the operating system.
unless there's a BOM. > For instance under Windows, il will probably be Window 1252 equivalent to ISO > 8859-1, ie. R�publique. no, these are not equivalent. windows 1252 is a superset of iso-8859-1. > If it is actually encoded in UTF-8, it will still be read as plain ASCII > characters, thus things like R�publique. not sure what to make of this, by "it" you mean the OS? or some text editor/cf? if a text editor/cf is told or can guess the encoding it will read it successfully. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:342519 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
