Bobby, thanks for the notepad+ idea - it was the encoding on the source file!!!!
-----Original Message----- From: Bobby [mailto:bo...@acoderslife.com] Sent: February-27-13 12:05 PM To: cf-talk Subject: Re: Localization , French Accents... UTF-8 should do it. On 2/27/13 3:00 PM, "Brook Davies" <cft...@logiforms.com> wrote: > >Should I be saving it in Unicode or UTF-8? > >-----Original Message----- >From: Bobby [mailto:bo...@acoderslife.com] >Sent: February-27-13 11:01 AM >To: cf-talk >Subject: Re: Localization , French Accents... > > >My first guess is that it is happening when the file is read in. Was it >saved as unicode? I think notepad lets you do that. If not, notepad++ >does. > > >On 2/27/13 12:52 PM, "Brook Davies" <cft...@logiforms.com> wrote: > >> >>I am trying to read in a number of text files that contain >>translations (using French in this example) and store them in my >>applications app scope. >>The file I am reading in looks like this: >>http://screencast.com/t/DZTv3iVrbyo >> >>When I dump the results from reading in the file, or try to use them >>in output, the accents get munged: >>http://screencast.com/t/aoRcLWWHn >> >>I have tried everything I can think of to get this to work and >>everything has failed. I have tried manually setting the charset on >>the CFFILE tag and that has not helped. I tried using UTF-8, and >>WINDOWS-1255. >> >>Since I have numerous language files I have even tried implementing >>this java class org.mozilla.universalchardet.UniversalDetector that >>detects the encoding of a file, and then using the detected encoding >>when reading in the translation files. But no matter what I do, the >>encoding is not preserved. >>Note, this library tells me my French files are "WINDOWS-1255"./ >> >>Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can handle this? >> >>Brook >> >> >> >> > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:354721 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
