[thelist] Re: Character Encoding Mismatch

Clive R Sweeney clive at designshift.com
Sun Oct 13 17:07:00 CDT 2002


Thanks for the responses on the "Character Encoding mismatch" issue. I
understand more about what's causing the problem, but I'm still not sure
how I should handle it.

It's useful to know that validating pages on the developmental server
did not mean they would fully validate on the client server. My
assumption is the developmental server is using an older version of the
ColdFusion server while the client has MX. From the responses I've
received it sounds like I might be causing problems if I took the easy
route and changed my meta tag to "UTF-8", since some browsers might not
handle it transparently. On the other hand, I don't have direct access
to the final "application.cfm" file. So should I simply instruct the
webmaster to just add '<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">'
to the file? Does it matter where? (You can tell I'm not the ColdFusion
guy in this business.)

Is this the best solution?

I wonder why Macromedia has ColdFusion MX specifying "UTF-8" while
Dreamweaver MX defaults to "ISO-8859-1". Is there a reason they should
be different, or weren't the developers communicating as well as they
should have?

... clive




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