Rob Wilkerson wrote: > 1. The feed itself specifies its encoding as iso-8859-1 in the source XML.
so what? in a perfect world folks would know the difference between latin-1 & a windows code page (cp) or ms wouldn't have created their own encoding (i'm not blaming ms for this, i think they actually needed to at the time). mixing encodings is fairly common. > 2. When I make the get request specifying the charset as iso-8859-1 > everything returns fine (at least for this feed) i get some garbled chars & i have to swap my browser's encoding. when i pulled that file using the windows cp it came thru ok except for the NCR goop. > 3. When I make the get request specifying either no charset at all or > utf-8 the non-ascii characters (what I, perhaps mistakenly, referenced > as members of an "extended character set") are not rendered properly > in the cfhttp.fileContent variable. if you use iso-8859-1 or utf-8 for windows-1252 encoded stuff that would be expected. you might just ask those folks what s/w they're using to build the content & feed. > 1. Specifying a utf-8 character set would handle most of the > non-ascii characters and allow them to render properly it would if that stuff was playing like it should. > 2. ColdFusion, if no charset was specified and no content-type was > specified in the response header would default to UTF-8. This is > straight from the CFHTTP docs if I read and understand them correctly. i never use it w/out a charset so maybe you're right. > and I think I'll go that direction. The question then becomes, what > charset can I specify that will handle almost any feed out there? utf-8, but stuff has to play by the rules. you can't declare something latin-1 & then schlepp in a windows cp char or two. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:240779 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
