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>Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:35:17 -0500
>From: "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum"   
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>Subject: Re: #8198 Russian Characters on ColdFusion Server
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On 3/27/06, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> --- Forwarded Message from "Stacey Powell" <[log in to unmask]> ---
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> >>> Russell Pierce 03/24/06 3:51 PM >>>
> I'm having a problem with Russian characters.  We're transitioning from
> a php-based website to a ColdFusion one.  The old website displays the
> characters correctly:

> I have tried to set the
> character encoding in the meta tag to the same as on the old website,
> but the browser still detects the page as UTF-8.  Does anyone know why
> the page is detected as UTF-8 when I specify Windows-1251 for the
> charset in the meta tag?

Your HTTP Content-Type header specifies UTF-8, this must be overriding
the page level setting. If you use Firefox to look at the page, you
will see it under page-info/headers. To change this, you probably need
to look at the IIS-6 server configuration. Or you need to find the way
to specify content-type from inside of the cfm template.

However, I would actually suggest switching to UTF-8 instead. Since
you have to fix it to work anyway, there is no reason to be stuck in
the old encodings.

> If that's not the problem, does anyone have any other ideas as to how I
> might solve this problem?

The other problem seems to be that your text has converted into two
different things. First line converted into a different encoding, but
not russian one. This may have happened if you accidentally
double-converted. The second one looks like it got escaped with all
the slashes that is not valid for html.

See if the above information help. If it does not, I will be happy to
help offline. I don't know ColdFusion, but I am both Russian and Web
literate.

Regards,
   Alex.


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