Duncan wrote: > what version of cf? MX6 or 5 oh boy. cf5's a tougher nut to crack when it comes to encoding, it basically ignores it.
> what encoding? the mail header says UTF-8 yes but what encoding are you actually using? cf5 & mx handle this quite differently. > is the hotmail a localized version for the norwegian market? UK / AUS what is that version's default encoding? utf-8 or iso-8859-1 or windows-1252? norwegian's got a few ISO encodings: iso-8859-1, iso-8859-4 & iso-8859-13. > mojibake? Yup, for a couple of Norwegian characters i collect this sort of thing, can you send one of these broken emails to [EMAIL PROTECTED] i just double checked, hotmail from cf7 w/thai & arabic utf-8 encoding works fine. > rendering by manually swapping the browser encoding)? the major issue > here is not hotmail, its with Lotus Notes - I dont believe you can do > this in Lotus Notes. sorry you didn't list that in the original email. need to dig up stuff for that. > since this looks like html mail, are you also including encoding hints > in the meta header? can you give me an example pls? <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> cf ignores this but other s/w, especially brain dead stuff, will often need this kind of hinting to figure out what the charset is, it's also a good idea to tag stuff so at least you can see what the intended charset was when things go wrong. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:227317 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
