Hi Paul, Hi Phillip, thanks a bunch. It was already fetched with cfhttp. ;-) I tried the charset attribute (both utf and iso-8859-1) with no luck. :-( Any other ideas ? Uwe
<cfloop query="CollectArtikel_1"> <cfhttp url="http://www.xxx.de/generate_artikel_neu.cfm?ArtikelNum=#CollectArtikel_1.ArtikelNum#" method="GET" port="80" resolveurl="true" timeout="1000" charset="utf-8"> </cfhttp> <CFQUERY DATASOURCE="fk" NAME="getArtikelZusatzText"> SELECT beschreibung, artikelID FROM ArtikelText WHERE ArtikelID = #CollectArtikel_1.ArtikelID# AND SpracheID = 1 </CFQUERY> <cfset noSlashes = ReReplace(getArtikelZusatzText.beschreibung,"\\|/|\?","","all")> <cffile action="WRITE" file="e:\xxx\yy\cfdocs\sem\archaeologie\#noSlashes#.htm" output="#cfhttp.FileContent#"> </cfloop> PH> Doh! PH> Yep.. A work around would be to get the data via cfhttp and use it's charset PH> attribute. PH> Warmest Regards, PH> Phillip B. Holmes PH> http://phillipholmes.com PH> -----Original Message----- PH> From: Paul Hastings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] PH> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:01 AM PH> To: CF-Talk PH> Subject: Re: stop converting of German umlaute into html: PH> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Hi Paul, i tried charset="iso-8859-1" >> a couple of days ago already with no luck. >> But I will try "utf-8" as well. Thank you. >> We have CF5. PH> in that case don't bother. cf5 has no charset option. first make sure the PH> data you're transferring is iso-8859-1 & double check that the char isn't PH> aleady an html entity. PH> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240046 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