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Anonymous
July 16, 2009
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Greek Charset - need urgent advise please

  • July 16, 2009
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Hi ALL!

We are working on a project and currently trying to translate to Greek.

I have tried all the usual charset codes like the following:

charset=UTF-8" />
charset=ISO-8859-7" />

Unfortunately the charset are still throwing up ? (question marks) where certain characters should.

We then tried to copy & paste the Greek translated copy from the PowerPoint to our website (coded in php) and hosted on a completely different server and the Greek text work without any issues whats so ever.

Is this a could fusion problem?

Could this be a problem with the host server?

Please if anyone is able to provide some more ideas to try or an answer to help that would be awesome!!

Thank you all for your time and help on this one.

mikehammerton

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    Correct answer tooMuchTrouble

    Thanks for that Paul, to confirm I place the:

    cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8"

    inside the <meta> tag, right?

    Sorry my cfm knowledge is not that great!

    Thanks again.

    mikehammerton


    no.

    'cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8"'

    is a cf tag & should go at the top of your cf pages. see these:

    http://www.sustainablegis.com/unicode/showMe.htm

    http://www.sustainablegis.com/unicode/greekTest.cfm

    2 replies

    Dileep_NR
    Dileep_NR
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2009


    does the data is displying from DATABASE?

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    tooMuchTrouble
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2009

    first off, stay with unicode (utf-8).

    a question mark (?) means the data is garbaged from a fatal encoding error. now

    we need to find where it's occurring.

    where's the text coming from? a database? can we see an example of the problem

    (code/url)?

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    Anonymous
    July 16, 2009

    Hi Paul

    Cheers for the quick reply!

    (1) The text is being copied and pasted from a Greek translated PPT doc.

    (2) The text is not coming from a DB

    (3) Please see below and example of the code:

    "<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
    <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
    <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    <title>Actelion - Product training & resource station</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="/styles/tracleer_fullscreen.css" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="/Technical/HTML/js/general.js"></script>

    <style type="text/css">
    <!--
    .style17 {font-size: 10px}
    .style18 {font-family: Arial, sans-serif}
    -->
    </style>
    </head>

    <body>


    <div id="container"></div>
    <div id="notes"> <span class="bluebold">Notes </span>
      </p>
      <p>&Eta; &Mu;&epsilon;&lambda;?&tau;&eta; &Alpha;&nu;&tau;&alpha;&gamma;&omega;&nu;&iota;&sigma;&tau;? &Epsilon;&nu;&delta;&omicron;&theta;&eta;&lambda;?&nu;&eta;&sigmaf; &sigma;&epsilon; &Alpha;&sigma;&theta;&epsilon;&nu;&epsilon;?&sigmaf; &mu;&epsilon; ?&pi;&iota;&alpha; &Sigma;&upsilon;&mu;&pi;&tau;&omega;&mu;&alpha;&tau;&iota;&kappa;? &Pi;&Alpha;&Upsilon; (EARLY) &alpha;&xi;&iota;&omicron;&lambda;?&gamma;&eta;&sigma;&epsilon; &tau;&eta; &chi;&rho;?&sigma;&eta; &tau;&omicron;&upsilon; Tracleer &sigma;&epsilon; &alpha;&sigma;&theta;&epsilon;&nu;&epsilon;?&sigmaf; &mu;&epsilon; &Pi;&Alpha;&Upsilon; &lambda;&epsilon;&iota;&tau;&omicron;&upsilon;&rho;&gamma;&iota;&kappa;?&sigmaf; &kappa;&alpha;&tau;&eta;&gamma;&omicron;&rho;?&alpha;&sigmaf; &Iota;&Iota; &kappa;&alpha;&tau;? &tau;&omicron;&nu; &Pi;&alpha;&gamma;&kappa;?&sigma;&mu;&iota;&omicron; &Omicron;&rho;&gamma;&alpha;&nu;&iota;&sigma;&mu;? &Upsilon;&gamma;&epsilon;?&alpha;&sigmaf; (FC II &kappa;&alpha;&tau;? WHO). &Tau;&alpha; &alpha;&pi;&omicron;&tau;&epsilon;&lambda;?&sigma;&mu;&alpha;&tau;&alpha; &tau;&eta;&sigmaf; &mu;&epsilon;&lambda;?&tau;&eta;&sigmaf; &pi;&rho;?&kappa;&epsilon;&iota;&tau;&alpha;&iota; &nu;&alpha; &delta;&eta;&mu;&omicron;&sigma;&iota;&epsilon;&upsilon;&theta;&omicron;?&nu; &sigma;&tau;&omicron; &sigma;?&nu;&omicron;&lambda;? &tau;&omicron;&upsilon;&sigmaf;.<span class="style17"></span></p>
      <p>&nbsp; </p>
    </div>

    </body>

    </html>"

    I hope this helps with the advise tips etc.

    Thank you once again for your time and help!

    mikehammerton

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    tooMuchTrouble
    Inspiring
    July 16, 2009

    well the text data was already garbaged when you posted it here. can you open it

    up in notepad or something simple & see if the text was garbaged fro the

    start? if not, try zipping it up & attaching to the forums.

    while i strongly urge you to use this encoding hint:

    cf pays no attention to it. either the cf files need to have a BOM (if you use notepad & do a "save as", you should see an option in the "save as" dialog to set the encoding) or add a ]]>

    to the top of all your cf pages.

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