ColdFusion 8, Oracle db unicode problem

2008-11-06 Thread Branislav Lungulovic
Is connection property oracle.jdbc.defaultNChar supported with supplied Oracle driver in ColdFusion 8? It seems to be impossible to save unicode encoded strings in nvarchar2 and nchar table fields when database charset (NLS_CHARACTERSET ) is not UTF8 or AL16UTF16. I did manage to save

Re: CFMX/MySql Unicode problem with arabic

2006-04-24 Thread Manar Droubi
thanks it worked :) but i had a problem with the MYSQl DSN i had to install MySQL Connector/J 3.0.17 ( only this version has worked with me) thank you ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238531

CFMX/MySql Unicode problem with arabic

2006-04-22 Thread manar droubi
i have a problem with inserting Arabic data into my database i'm using Apache, MySql 4.0.24-nt, Coldfusion MX 6.1, on Windows XP Pro sp2 i did everything to enforce my application to use the UTF-8 charset i used cfcontent type=text/html; charset=utf-8 and cfprocessingDirective

Re: CFMX/MySql Unicode problem with arabic

2006-04-22 Thread Jochem van Dieten
manar droubi wrote: i'm using Apache, MySql 4.0.24-nt, Coldfusion MX 6.1, on Windows XP Pro sp2 You should use MySQL 4.1 or newer when you work with Unicode. i used cfcontent type=text/html; charset=utf-8 and cfprocessingDirective pageencoding=utf-8 and cfset setEncoding(form,utf-8) i

Re: CFMX/MySql Unicode problem with arabic

2006-04-22 Thread Paul Hastings
manar droubi wrote: useUnicode=turecharacterEncoding=UTF-8 and the above should be useUnicode=truecharacterEncoding=UTF-8 ~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:238471 Archives:

Re: Unicode Problem [solved]

2004-09-03 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Koskie wrote: I'm moving an application from CF 5 to CFMX... and I'm having a problem with some of my data. The database is PostgreSQL. For posterity: The database was originally using the encoding SQL-ASCII. With CF 5 this results in characters with accents being treated as

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Koskie wrote: I'm moving an application from CF 5 to CFMX... and I'm having a problem with some of my data. The database is PostgreSQL. How do I start tracking down the problem / fix it?Any tips? What charset is your website using? What charset was your website using in CF 5? Are

RE: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jillian Koskie
the offending characters in PostgreSQL itself? -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 1, 2004 6:01 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Unicode Problem Jillian Koskie wrote: I'm moving an application from CF 5 to CFMX... and I'm having a problem

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Koskie wrote: We are not forcing a charset at all --whatever the default is.We are not using cfprocessingdirective, setencoding or cfsetting. Then you are probably using UTF-8 now. My problem isn't so much 'how will I insert data now'... so much as there is data in my database that

RE: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jillian Koskie
I have a database in sql_ascii. (though we've tried unicode as well) -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 1, 2004 9:52 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Unicode Problem Jillian Koskie wrote: We are not forcing a charset at all --whatever

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Koskie wrote: I have a database in sql_ascii. (though we've tried unicode as well) That will only be able to correctly store characters from 7-bit ASCII (so no accented characters). You need to convert your database to unicode in order to be able to use unicode. For that, pg_dump it,

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Paul Hastings
characters in your database). You could also use another supported charset like ISO-8859-15, but once you are converting it is probably best to go all the way and switch to unicode. ah, there's a man who knows a thing or two [Todays Threads] [This Message] [Subscription] [Fast

RE: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jillian Koskie
Jochem, Is there any way to search my database for the offending records? -- Jillian -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: September 1, 2004 10:25 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Unicode Problem Jillian Koskie wrote: I have a database in sql_ascii

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Jillian Koskie wrote: Is there any way to search my database for the offending records? Perhaps the following would work: SELECT ID FROM table WHERE octet_length(field) octet_length(convert(field, 'UNICODE')) But don't continue with a hodgepodge. Bite the bullet, convert your system to

Re: Unicode Problem

2004-09-01 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Paul Hastings wrote: characters in your database). You could also use another supported charset like ISO-8859-15, but once you are converting it is probably best to go all the way and switch to unicode. ah, there's a man who knows a thing or two Well, to quote a famous CF I18N Guru:

Unicode Problem

2004-08-31 Thread Jillian Koskie
I'm moving an application from CF 5 to CFMX... and I'm having a problem with some of my data. The database is PostgreSQL. How do I start tracking down the problem / fix it?Any tips? The error: Error Executing Database Query. Invalid character data was found. This is most likely caused by

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-29 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Toby Tremayne wrote: I wonder though whether it's a CF thing or a copy/paste thing - can encoding elements from word be pasted into a plain textarea on a website? Or is it more likely that the earlier version of CF stored things incorrectly and cfmx finally does it right? More likely that

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-29 Thread Toby Tremayne
mmm perhaps you're right. I'm going to try this http posting thing and see if it works... Wednesday, January 29, 2003, 8:01:18 PM, you wrote: JvD More likely that earlier versions didn't handle unicode right. Feel free JvD to copy-paste all the Word stuff you want at

Re[2]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-28 Thread Toby Tremayne
Hi Jochem, jotn What charset is this data using? ach - just whatever the default is for cf 4.0 /4.5 (UTF-8?) There were no processing directives or locale settings in the app at all. It's been running on a windows machine (NT) up to now. jotn If the data in Access is visible correctly when

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-28 Thread Toby Tremayne
ok I've tried this again and have some interesting results. I used pgAdmin's migration tool to try to move the data across - I created the pg database as unicode, and used the unicode option for the migration - and ended up with an error: An error occured at: 29/01/2003 11:11:54 AM: -2147467259:

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-28 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Toby Tremayne wrote: ok I've tried this again and have some interesting results. I used pgAdmin's migration tool to try to move the data across - I created the pg database as unicode, and used the unicode option for the migration - and ended up with an error: An error occured at:

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-28 Thread Toby Tremayne
argh. I had begun to think it might be something like this. i'll keep playing but I fear you're right, the only way to rectify this is have an older version of CF pull it out and post it to cfmx on another server. What a nightmare. I wonder though whether it's a CF thing or a copy/paste thing

migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-28 Thread Sangeeta Karmokar
Hi there, I am new to CF and I want to create a page with login and password. Can any one help me with this. I will be very thankful. Sangeeta ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription:

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-24 Thread jochemd
Quoting Toby Tremayne [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I've been searching through the online forums and docs but can't find anything that actually tells me how to do this. I have a database (msaccess) full of data stored by a cf application being run under 4.5 for most of it's life then cf

migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Toby Tremayne
Hi all, I've been searching through the online forums and docs but can't find anything that actually tells me how to do this. I have a database (msaccess) full of data stored by a cf application being run under 4.5 for most of it's life then cf 5.0 for a while. When I transport

Re: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Hastings
Has anyone got any suggestions? setup a template on the cf4.5 box that dumps out your data, that should get the mangled unicode out ok. cfhttp from the mx box to that template, that should get it into real unicode format. make sure the mx dsn has unicode option turned on you've added

Re[2]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Toby Tremayne
Hi Paul, thanks for that. It's not going to be fun re-writing my scripts to scrape all this data off a cfhttp call though incidentally will I need to cfprocessingdirective, setencoding, etc on every page in my cfmx application from now on? I saw something the other day

Re: Re[2]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Hastings
thanks for that. It's not going to be fun re-writing my scripts to scrape all this data off a cfhttp call though well you might try cf4.5 to dump out text files use native db tools to import these. incidentally will I need to cfprocessingdirective, setencoding, etc good

Re[4]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Toby Tremayne
PH good practice for cfprocessingdirective on each page. setencoding, cfcontent PH can just go into the application.cfm That's what's bothering me Paul - can I no longer just output the data from my database reliably without forcing these directives? Friday, January 24, 2003, 4:40:52 PM, you

Re: Re[4]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Hastings
That's what's bothering me Paul - can I no longer just output the data from my database reliably without forcing these directives? it, as usual, depends on what specifically you're doing. what encoding do you want to use? what encoding is your cf box's jvm? want i18n?

Re[6]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Toby Tremayne
ach to be honest I'm just want it to pump out the data in whatever the default is - there's a lot of data but it's not an enormous application, and the content is all straight english text. Friday, January 24, 2003, 5:29:16 PM, you wrote: That's what's bothering me Paul - can I no longer just

Re: Re[6]: migrate data stored by cf 4.5 to cfmx (unicode problem?)

2003-01-23 Thread Paul Hastings
ach to be honest I'm just want it to pump out the data in whatever the default is - there's a lot of data but it's not an enormous application, and the content is all straight english text. its not likely that its all straight english text if you're getting ? [] in your text. you've probably

CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Marius Milosav
Hi, I really hope that somebody can shed some light with this issue (Hint, hint Macromedia) We have one application that was fully translated in Korean (using CF5) With CFMX the previously translated data cannot be properly display by CFMX , so we had to manually retrieve the data and re save

Re: CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Marius Milosav wrote: I really hope that somebody can shed some light with this issue (Hint, hint Macromedia) I doubt you will see something from Macromedia here. Maybe from Macromedia employees, but that is not the same. We have one application that was fully translated in Korean (using

Re: CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Marius Milosav
and everything works OK Thanks Marius - Original Message - From: Jochem van Dieten [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 1:35 PM Subject: Re: CFMX unicode problem Marius Milosav wrote: I really hope that somebody can shed some light with this issue

Re: CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Paul Hastings
With CFMX the previously translated data cannot be properly display by CFMX , so we had to manually retrieve the data and re save it. actually you could have cfhttp-ed into the cf5 box from mx slurped over the data. On our development server CFMX version 6,0,0,48097 the data is properly

Re: CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Paul Hastings
Missing info on locales of all machines involved (CF SQL), datatypes (N or normal), use of setEncoding, use of cfcontent, use of cfprocessingdirective. (All these CF functions are explained in the internationalization docs on the Macromedia website:

Re: CFMX unicode problem

2002-09-10 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Tuesday, September 10, 2002, at 10:25 , Marius Milosav wrote: On their server the data is properly displayed in Korean but all new data that is saved it display garbage. Note that when moving to CFMX, you need to add several pieces of code to your pages if you wish to handle non-Latin-1

Re: CFMX unicode problem resolved

2002-09-10 Thread Marius Milosav
] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 2:21 PM Subject: Re: CFMX unicode problem Missing info on locales of all machines involved (CF SQL), datatypes (N or normal), use of setEncoding, use of cfcontent, use of cfprocessingdirective. (All these CF functions

RE: CFMX unicode problem (SOLUTION)

2002-09-10 Thread Damon Cooper
Just to follow-up to this: As we state in the docs, when two CFM files contain different character encodings, but a BOM is missing from one or more of the .CFM files, AND no CFPROCESSINGDIRECTIVE is specified, the default OS encoding will be used. This basically tells the CFMX compiler,