Robert Nurse wrote:

> I'm grabbing data from an RSS feed and loading it in a DB.  The description
> field contains the – and —.  I want to display (print) the
> description on subsequent CFM pages.  I believe the current encoding is utf-8
> as <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> is

cf6 & above defaults to utf-8 (unless somebody changed it) but just FYI that 
meta header has nothing to do w/what cf is doing.

> in the header.  I've tried to replace &#8211; and &#8212; with &ndash; and
> &mdash;.  But, I'm still getting the undesired characters.

does the font you're using have those glyphs in them?

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