LOL. Thanks Rob. I'm trying to do my homework before I fall into a pit. I appreciate the feedback. Anything that I should consider in terms of data storage in SQL Server or MySQL?
Rey... Rob Wilkerson wrote: > I'd first try it and see what happens. The only time I've ever had a > problem was when I had to return XML from an AJaX call and it was > pretty easy to get around by specifying the charset as you listed: > > > <cfprocessingdirective suppresswhitespace="true"> > > <cfcontent type="text/xml; charset=UTF-8" reset="Yes" /> > > <cfoutput> > #toString ( getProfileXML ( URL.profile, URL.version, URL.directory ) )# > </cfoutput> > > </cfprocessingdirective> > > Took me longer than it should have to catch it, but once I realized > the problem the fix was easy. And you've already realized the fix - > even if you didn't quite know what it fixed. :-) > > > On 5/12/06, Rey Bango <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Hi everyone. I'm doing my best to learn about Ajax and development of >>web apps using this architecture. I recently read this: >> >>"Ajax uses UTF-8. Normal forms are sent using the encoding of the parent >>page. Thus a SJIS encoded page will default to sending form content >>encoded in SJIS. Ajax submitted forms on the other hand will be sent as >>UTF-8. If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of >>choice for the server, this will require a solution such as the server >>recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character >>encoding." >> >>The line that immediately jumped out at me was this one: >> >>"If for some strange reason, UTF-8 is not the character set of choice >>for the server, this will require a solution such as the server >>recognizing and translating UTF-8 responses to a desired character >>encoding." >> >>Does this mean that IIS or Apache have to be explicitly setup to handle >>UTF-8? If so, how? I've never had to deal with since I've not worked on >>international sites so this is new to me. >> >>I know I can set the charset to UTF-8 for a specific page via the >>following line: >> >><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> >> >>as well as setting up CF pages to use UTF-8 as explained here: >> >>http://mxblogspace.journurl.com/users/admin/?mode=article&entry=7288 >> >>but again, I'm concerned about my web server not being configured to >>handle that. >> >>Also, what about SQL Server? Does that have to be configured in some >>special way if I'm receiving AJAX data in UTF-8? >> >>Thanks, >> >>Rey... >> >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240330 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=89.70.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
