special characters

[cfvogue]

Hi,

I know this issue has been discussed before, but i just don't get it to work and it frustrates me. It's about the strange characters like €,ë,ï under CFMX. I've looked up many helpforums and found some usefull topics.
EG in the cfadministrator i set the "connection string" to 'useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=iso-8859-1'

Also, on the pages needed, i added the following:
<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=&quot;iso8859-1&quot;>
<cfcontent type=&quot;text/html; charset=iso8859-1&quot;>
<cfset setencoding(&quot;FORM&quot;, &quot;iso8859-1&quot>
<cfset setencoding(&quot;URL&quot;, &quot;iso8859-1&quot>

It works fine now when i output form variables. Even stuff selected from my databases (mySql) looks fine. However, when i cfhttp to this page (in order to write the source to a htmlpage) the special characters show up as funny squares. The same thing happens when i set a sessionvariable with one of those strange characters and try to insert it into my database later i get an error.

cfserver5 never had this problem. I'm not really happy with it. It's still the same with the latest updates.

PLEASE HELP
chau

 

[Sarky78]

Chau,

Have you set the charset attribute for CFHTTP?

The default is UTF-8, so by setting it like this:

charset=&quot;ISO-8859-1&quot;

should solve the problem you are having with cfhttp

Hope this helps!

Tony