This was a problem of single quotes appearing as squares on win 2000 clients. I wasn't around when this problem was sorted but I know that's why we are using this character set. The person who set this up is on holiday at the moment so it may have to wait.
Looks like I'll have to change the doc type, will e-mail the guy who did this and see what he says. Thanks for the help. Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name -----Original Message----- From: Paul Fennell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 18:05 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Bloody encoding again [quote] I think it was something to do with windows 2000 not displaying special characters correctly. / [quote] woah .. Do you have access to the server or is this a hosted site? I've not seen or heard of w2k or w2k pro having this issue? in regard to the JS you should be using £ as we already covered are the alert box's I take it custom error handling ? and if so are they tacking any form of Coldfusion data to display ? -----Original Message----- From: Giles Roadnight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 17:32 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Bloody encoding again Have this at the top of the page: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 TRANSITIONAL//EN"> <META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=Windows-1251" > There is a reason for using the windows charset - I think it was something to do with windows 2000 not displaying special characters correctly. I should say that this is mostly only happening on Javascript alert boxes. Locally I don't get the problem, only on the live server. This is probably because I have only downloaded the latest files for the directories I am working in, my local copies of files are probably different outsie dof these directories. I suppose I should look through live and local pages to see where the difference is.... I tried £ and that actually appeared on the alert! Thanks for the links people. Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name -----Original Message----- From: Paul Fennell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 17:30 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] Bloody encoding again Was the issue in using £ Are you setting a doc type ? <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> Or relevant doctype ? and is there a reason your using <META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=Windows-1251"> rather than <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> ?? -----Original Message----- From: Giles Roadnight [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 June 2003 17:04 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] Bloody encoding again I'm getting J's instead of �'s again. I have tried both � , chr(153) (or whatever it is) and £ but none of them work. I have this at the top of the page: <META HTTP-EQUIV = "Content-type" CONTENT="text/html; CHARSET=Windows-1251"> which I think has something to do with it. Please help. Giles Roadnight http://giles.roadnight.name -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003 -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.483 / Virus Database: 279 - Release Date: 19/05/2003 -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
