[thelist] Forms, foreign characters and Cold Fusion

[matthew garrett]

Hey,
So, if one expects a lot of international characters in a contact form for
an international client, how does one ensure that the characters are passed
with some integrity, rather than as garbag-y looking stuff?

I've tried a great number of things, but the problem seems to be that the
info is passed from the form as the "wrong" ASCII number. Does this require
a JavaScript to convert the high-ASCII characters to their actual high-ASCII
values, before they are passed to the server?

I'm using Cold Fusion, though I'm not convinced that it matters what I'm
using.

I have the same issue with a form in Flash which calls a CFMAIL tag, but I
haven't tried as many solutions with that just yet.

Thoughts?

Thanks.
matt g