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[Guest]

Hi all,

When i am posting the message its not able to display properly on the web page. i.e junk character added instead of special characters.

My Message :

It’s been over two years.

Output on webpage is :

It�s been over two years (junk charcter in between Its instead of symbol ' )


Thanks

Ravi

[Newsgroup_User]

This is a character encoding issue. The browser does not understand all
the characters you are trying to display according to the encoding
information it was given. If you are not dealing with foreign
languages, then you are probably running against Microsoft Word's use of
'extended' characters such as curly quotes and em and en dashes. A web
page using the vanilla 'ascii' encoding does not understand these
extended characters.

You can either use a encoding that does understand them such as UTF-8 or
windows-1252. Or you can convert your output to plain ascii that uses
regular quotes and dashes rather the the extended ones.

[Guest]

I have tried with the charset=windows1252 but its not working..... I have one more web page but on that page it dispaly well....


Thanks
Ravi

[Newsgroup_User]

bachwala wrote:
> I have tried with the charset=windows1252 but its not working..... I have one more web page but on that page it dispaly well....
>
>
> Thanks
> Ravi

To change the character encoding takes a bit more then just setting the
charset in the META tag I presume. Check out the documentation on how
to 'internationalize' ColdFusion. There are several tags and setting
involved.

[Guest]

You may need to escape the character in your page

take a look at his page

http://www.dragonwinds.com/resources/html-codes.shtml