--- Forwarded Message from "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <[log in to unmask]> --- >DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=VxHgGz2PKRIYDz/CXsg2Tvjk0sYGUKOqafRrkbD+c3LIbdg0OCH8hDDunIHjspMJQhcR3Fa256VteN 0dwU6EVaIRvnZlaFmTOWXmm6iKF/H1qc4HzteOFo2zPVIABfoM5A08L66k2muCq5jx/PqDggzeC0S7wc YQ1r6/Qni550Q= >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 09:35:17 -0500 >From: "Alexandre Rafalovitch" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Re: #8198 Russian Characters on ColdFusion Server >In-Reply-To: <[log in to unmask]> >References: <[log in to unmask]> On 3/27/06, LLTI-Editor <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > --- Forwarded Message from "Stacey Powell" <[log in to unmask]> --- > > >>> 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. *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning, and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://consortium.dartmouth.edu). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************