> I don't know if I have my facts straight on this, but I am trying
> to figure
> out how to handle special characters via the CFMAIL tag. I have an
> application that needs to be able to send a special character (small e,
> grave accent; �), but I am finding if I simply send it as the character
> itself or ASCII 232, it will show up fine for me on Windows with Outlook,
> and fine in mail on Unix, but ends up looking different on Eudora/Mac
> (capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark; �).
>
> I realize that the Mac ASCII character set is different and this matches
> with the way the chracter is being translated on the Mac. I think
> that maybe
> mail might need to sent as MIME encoded/quoted-printable to properly
> survive? (We also tried HTML entities with the HTML setting on CFMAIL and
> found them not decoding at all, ie. we get 'è')
>
> Has anyone had this problem before, and have a CF based solution? Is there
> an entirely simple solution to this that I am missing?
This isn't a problem with CFMail, but a problem with different levels of
HTML - if you run the CFMail in HTML mode, then you can pass the HTML codes,
but if the client email software doesn't recognise the relevant characters
Try putting the language characters in a page and viewing them with Netscape
2 - it'll just display the codes but not the characters...
Philip Arnold
Director
Certified ColdFusion Developer
ASP Multimedia Limited
T: +44 (0)20 8680 1133
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