>> can I make sure all of the characters are iso-8859-1 compliant when I >> build my xml output?
if you're on cf7 & don't actually care what the original encoding was & just want latin-1, maybe this: <cfscript> latinOneXML=charSetEncode(toBinary(toBase64(yourXMLgoesHere)),"ISO-8859-1"); </cfscript> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/message.cfm/forumid:4/messageid:246841 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4