--- Forwarded Message from Eric Granquist <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 11:51:42 -0600 >From: Eric Granquist <[log in to unmask]> >To: [log in to unmask] >Cc: [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask], [log in to unmask] >Subject: #8198 Russian Characters on ColdFusion Server >User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.4 Hi Stacey-- Here's a pretty good article about this (I'm suggesting/guessing) and other CFMX internationalization issues: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/globalize.html I'm assuming the info on your pages is not coming out of a database, so that jdbc doesn't figure in this problem--that's the part that's given us some trouble with our legacy cf "unicode" data. If these are static pages, and if you don't want to convert the pages to unicode, you might just try setting the <CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE> tag to do the charset you want on each page you don't want to show up as unicode. It seems that the cf versions after 5 (mx+) want to do unicode all the time, and you have to prevent this if you don't want it. We also got caught by this in different ways--ironic that as allaire/macromedia/adobe + java goes on this big push to internationalize, they break our international stuff. If the <CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE> tag doesn't help, there are a few other things to try in that article, mostly depending on whether the data comes out of a database or not. here's a sheet showing how to use the <CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE> tag: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/wwhelp/wwhimpl/common/html/ wwhelp.htm?context=ColdFusion_Documentation&file=00000312.htm Good luck Eric >Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:18:09 -0600 >From: "Stacey Powell" <[log in to unmask]> >To: <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Russian Characters on ColdFusion Server Hello everyone, I am forwarding a question from my Technology Assistant. Any ideas to help us out? Stacey Stacey L. Powell Director, Foreign Language Multimedia Center Auburn University [log in to unmask] 334-844-6381 >>> 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: http://www.auburn.edu/forlang/lab/resources/viewer.php?type=audio&book=nachalo The new website does not: http://media.cla.auburn.edu/forlang/multimediacenter/resources/russian.cfm When pasted into Dreamweaver, the characters appear correctly, but not when viewed in a browser from the server. 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? If that's not the problem, does anyone have any other ideas as to how I might solve this problem? Thanks, Russell Pierce ----------------------------------------- Eric Granquist Systems Administrator Rice University Language Resource Center 6100 Main Street MS-37 Houston, Texas 77005 Office: 713-348-6260 [log in to unmask] ----------------------------------------- *********************************************** 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]) ***********************************************