Are you defining a base content-type for the page? <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"> What about your doctype?
On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:50 PM, John Pullam <jpul...@mcleansystems.com>wrote: > > I have a strange problem that involves passing hidden fields that contain > French accents to PayPal from a Coldfusion web page. When I pass a form > variable like this with the French accents imbedded in the data: > > <input type="hidden" name="city" value="St-Jérôme"> > > PayPal struggles with the value and converts it into something unusable. > When I create the identical page as an "htm" without server CF processing, > PayPal eats it up and it works properly. > > Can anyone suggest what the difference between such a request being made > from a post on a cfm page is versus an identical htm page? > > I'm sure someone will want to see the form tag. It is: > > <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr"; method="post"> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318797 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
