Hi David, thank you. I ended up with a workaround similar to it: <cfmail to="x...@xxx.com" from="x...@xxx.com" subject="Eine neue Datei ist verfuegbar" type="HTML"> Sehr geehrter ..., Mit freundlichen Grössen </cfmail>
So for ü (e.g.) I typed: ü Not nice, but at least it works. Uwe > Have you tried using HTMLEditFormat? > David Phelan > Web Developer > IT Security & Web Technologies > Emerging Health > Montefiore Information Technology > 3 Odell Plaza, Yonkers, NY 10701 > 914-457-6465 Office > dphe...@emerginghealthit.com > www.emerginghealthit.com > www.montefiore.org > ________________________________________ > From: Uwe Degenhardt <cf-t...@sdsolutions.de> > Sent: Wednesday, September 10, 2014 3:51 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: cfmail and special characters > Hi Philipp, > thanks. Unfortunately, that doesn't work either. > Has anybody any other ideas ? > @Philipp, can you send me one cfmail-code snippet with special > characters that runs on your CF8/Linux-box as an example ? > Uwe > am Mittwoch, 10. September 2014 um 09:24 schrieben Sie: >> Uwe, >> try <cfmail charset="utf-8... >> Gruß, >> Philipp >>> Am 10.09.2014 um 09:17 schrieb Uwe Degenhardt <cf-t...@sdsolutions.de>: >>> >>> >>> Hi Everybody, >>> to be honest: I am pulling my hair out ! >>> I have a problem with cfmail and special characters. >>> The german "umlaute" seem to be displayed wrong. >>> This is the code: >>> >>> <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8"> >>> <cfset SetLocale("German (DE)")/> >>> <cfmail to="x...@xxx.com" from="x...@xxx.com" subject="Eine neue Datei ist >>> verfuegbar"> >>> <CFMAILPARAM NAME="charset" VALUE="utf-8"> >>> Sehr geehrter ..., >>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen >>> </cfmail> >>> >>> I have also tried: >>> >>> <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> >>> <cfset SetLocale("German (DE)")/> >>> <cfmail to="x...@xxx.com" from="x...@xxx.com" subject="Eine neue Datei ist >>> verfuegbar"> >>> <CFMAILPARAM NAME="charset" VALUE="iso-8859-1"> >>> Sehr geehrter ..., >>> Mit freundlichen Grüßen >>> </cfmail> >>> >>> Concerning the last line I always got: Mit freundlichen Gr??en instead >>> of "Mit >>> freundlichen Grüßen" >>> >>> I tried this on my ColdFusion 8 box with Windows. Absolutely no >>> problem at all. When I switch to Linux (Debian or CentOS) it doesn't >>> work. >>> >>> I also tried to change the charset on my linux boxes. No positive >>> result. I tried to change the Mail Charset Settings in CF already. >>> With also no positive results. >>> >>> Has anybody any other ideas ? >>> >>> Uwe >>> >>> >>> >>> >> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359298 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm