Just a guess, but I think these may not be the characters you think they are.
The nomal single quote: chr(39) The left single quote: chr(145) The right single quote: chr(146) The normal double quote: chr(34) The left double quote: chr(147) The right double quote: chr(148) The "fancy" or "smart quotes" will not render properly in many instances, and in many fonts. You might think about replacing them with there generic counterparts, or making sure you are rendering the text in a Unicode/DCBS enabled browser. If you are mailing the text as plaintext, you will need to use the text-safe characters, rather than the extended fancy versions. Jerry Johnson >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 08/20/02 01:55PM >>> Hello Everyone, This is my first post here, so I apologize in advance if my question is not formed properly. I have an online enrollment built in CFMX and supported with MSSQL2k database. Its fairly simple set of pages that allows our customers to register their contact information, signup for subscriptions and agree to a dynamic generated user agreement. Everything works, but I have a couple of annoying things happening. Within the user agreement pages I pull text out of the database and then process an acceptance of the agreement by CFMAILing them the agreement. In areas of the agreement where a word is either double quoted or single quoted the screen and emails have either square boxes and/or question marks appear in place of the quotes. I have verified that the database fields do have single and double quotes. Furthermore, the fields in MSSQL2k have a data type of Text with a length of 16 and allowing Nulls. For reference and briefly the process of the enrollment is handled as follows: 1. New enrollee begins the process by becoming authenticated with a enrollment code given to them previously. 2. The new enrollee is asked to complete an initial contact information form. At this point their information is stored in a table that is viewed as having temporary information, later to be moved after completion of the enrollment. 3. Next the enrollee chooses from a set of available services they wish to subscribe to. All info is pulled from the database. Updates to the temp table are made when they click on submit. 4. Next they review their selection and cost totals, with an option to edit. 5. Next they see their user agreement. At this point based on their services selection different text will appears. 6. At this point they can accept or decline the whole registration. If they accept then a set of emails is sent to us and the new enrollee. Also when they accept the temp data is moved from the temp tables and put into an enrollee table and the temp data is deleted. In every database step that involves the agreement text the quotes and single quotes appear to be ok and passed along without problems. Its just when the info is seen onscreen or in the emails that the characters are changed. What do I have to do to correct this annoyance. Thank you in advance for your help. Best Regards, Ali Daniali Transact Communication, Inc. ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
