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Anonymous
June 7, 2006
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French accent display problem

  • June 7, 2006
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I have a problem displaying french accent in a cfmail. I have tried everything but nothing seems to work.

Here is the code for the best i can do... only é is rightly displaying other like à, è, ê, â, etc. appears bizzar caracters...

how the hell can i display my accent correctly..... pleeeeease help mee...

<cfmail query="check" to="test@hotmail.com" from="noreply@hotmail.com" subject="#form.sujet#" type="HTML">
<cfset SetLocale("French (Canadian)")>
<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding = "windows-1250" />
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
<cfset setencoding("URL", "windows-1250")>
<cfset setencoding("FORM", "windows-1250")>
#form.message#
</cfmail>

Is there a special tag that would finally work to display accent correctly... i desperate!!!
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    Newsgroup_User
    Inspiring
    June 8, 2006
    tilanteigne wrote:
    > <cfmail query="check" to="serge.lanteigne@acadie.com"
    > from="info@ent-peninsule.ca" subject="#form.sujet#" type="HTML">
    > <cfset SetLocale("French (Canadian)")>
    > <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding = "windows-1250" />
    > <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
    > <cfset setencoding("URL", "windows-1250")>
    > <cfset setencoding("FORM", "windows-1250")>
    > #form.message#
    > </cfmail>

    first off the encoding tags/functions shouldn't go within the cfmail. secondly,
    windows-1250 is a codepage for central european languages like polish, czech, etc.

    move the setencoding & cfcontent to your application.cfm or .cfc & either use
    iso-8859-1 or utf-8 as the encoding. place the cfprocessingdirective at the top
    each page & also set the encoding to iso-8859-1 or utf-8.
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    Anonymous
    June 14, 2006
    Well.. good stuff. That works for my cfmail now. But all the information output from the database replace accent by a ?. If I remove the setencoding & cfcontent from my application.cfm, its work for the output but not for the cfmail. Do you have an idea to help me out?????
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    Anonymous
    June 7, 2006
    No, we're still on CF 5.
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    Anonymous
    June 7, 2006
    Remove all the CFSETs, CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE and CFCONTENT. Just your <CFMAIL ...>#FORM.message#</CFMAIL> I ran the code below on one of our servers internally and it mailed everything correctly.
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    Anonymous
    June 7, 2006
    I have already tryied that... doesn't work. i never had problem with CF5 but i got this problem with CFMX. Do you have CFMX server??
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