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December 15, 2008
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UTF-8 encoding characters

  • December 15, 2008
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Hi everyone, I am new to coldfusion and need a bit of help here,
I created a .cfm and a .html with the exact same body content (Spanish words with accents), but when preview in the browser the .cfm version shows wierd characters even though both pages are charset=utf-8, is this a configuration issue that needs to be configured from the Coldfucion server admin properties? Like always thanks for the help.

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Inspiring
December 16, 2008
pixculim wrote:
> Hi everyone, I am new to coldfusion and need a bit of help here,
> I created a .cfm and a .html with the exact same body content (Spanish words

one of these things is not like the other.

> with accents), but when preview in the browser the .cfm version shows wierd
> characters even though both pages are charset=utf-8, is this a configuration

what version of cf? 6 & above default to utf-8, is that the actual encoding of
the cf page? setting the meta-header's not enough.

> <p>cotizaci?n, publicaci?n y ?bicaci?n</p>

if this is the actual cf code, your encoding is bad. it's not utf-8.
pixculimAuthor
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December 16, 2008
Hi Paul thanks for your help, I am using CF7 on IIS 6, the way I created both codes listed on my original post is by clicking on New file on DW and selecting CFM and HTML file respectively from the DW splash window and then I added the 3 words with their accents (From design view). I have not moved or changed any encoding type.
Once again thanks for your help..
Sincerely,
Pixc.