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I’m working on a website for a electronics website. They want to have the description for the products in two languages (English and Greek). Basic text on the pages works fine since I have <cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding=“utf-8”> on the page but the content coming from the database gives all kind of strange characters. What should I do to avoid this?

Thank you in advance

2

Hmm… thought you were using MySQL not MS SQL…

http://easycfm.com/coldfusion/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=12&Topic=14896

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I tried it w/CF9 and the table and data you posted. What seemed to do the trick is adding the correct unicode settings to the datasource url (from the CF Administrator)
http://www.andyjarrett.com/blog/index.cfm/?mode=entry&entry=BFABE61B-3048-28EB-0E6EE6F41782EA3D

Goto “Advanced Settings” and the connection string: “useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8”

Then the greek characters displayed fine for me:

<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding=“utf-8”>
<cfquery name=“q” datasource=“MySQLUTF8”>
SELECT p_greek_description FROM LProducts
</cfquery>

<div style=“font-family: Arial Unicode MS;”>
<cfoutput>
#q.p_greek_description#
</cfoutput>
</div>

Which produces:

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4

Off-line I have it working but online it still gives me the question marks. Both off- and online I have altered the table

ALTER TABLE LProducts MODIFY p_greek_description text CHARACTER SET greek;

So I’m sure you’re right about that DSN configuration. What should I say to my hosting company, since I can’t change any dsn settings myself?

Thank you in advance

5

I have asked the hosting company to set unicode settings for domain but now I get the following error:

Unsupported character encoding 'utf-8

What am i doing wrong?

6

Hi all, this is realy driving me insane :rolleyes: I found this article:

http://mysecretbase.com/ColdFusion_and_Unicode.cfm and followed all steps.

This is my database:


CREATE TABLE `LProducts` (
  `p_id` int(8) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `p_cat_id` smallint(2) NOT NULL,
  `p_subcat_id` smallint(4) NOT NULL,
  `p_name` varchar(64) NOT NULL,
  `p_description` text,
  `p_greek_description` text,
  `p_price` float(100,2) NOT NULL,
  `p_added` timestamp NOT NULL default CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
  `p_offer` float(100,2) default NULL,
  `p_isOffer` tinyint(1) NOT NULL default '0',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`p_id`),
  KEY `p_name` (`p_name`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8;

In phpMyadmin everything looks okay.

This is what I get when exporting the database:

(3, 2, 10, ‘LDF7932ST’, ‘Looking for a dishwashing powerhouse? Look no further. With sleek, stainless steel looks and sophisticated features, this LG SteamDishwasher" fits the bill. And with a powerful but gentle TrueSteam" generator, integrated controls, ultra-quiet LoDecibel" Operation, and enough room for 16 place settings, you may begin to realize that it’‘s more than just a dishwasher it’‘s something better.’, ‘5 προγράμματα πλυσίματος
Θέση για 12 σερβίτσια
Mini Πρόγραμμα
Ρυθμιζόμενα συρτάρια
ALL IN ONE
Πρόγραμμα express 55 λεπτών
Χρώμα: Inox antitouch με full st/st πορτα
Ενεργειακή κλάση ΑAA’, 175.00, ‘2010-06-26 08:15:54’, 100.00, 1)

Off-line it works. Why isn’t it working on-line? Any help would be realy appreciated.

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Thank you for your reply cfStarlight. I have the field as greek_general_ci and maybe a stupid question but how do I configure the DSN?

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Is the content stored as unicode and is your dsn configured to support unicode?