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What character set should I be using when trying to display German Umlaut characters (ä ö ü ß)? I'm using utf-8 throughout the site. I'm using CF 9 with SQL 2012.
Sometimes if I place the umlaut character inside a cfinput or cftextarea, etc. all I get is the ä instead of ä. I have the umlaut characters as values in SQL DB but that info not displaying properly either. Also...within some ajax areas of the site, the umlaut characters are replaced with a box.
I've seen some posts throughout the web referring to using ISO-8859-1. Not sure if this is a fix all and if it's going to affect and mess up the rest of the site.
Ideas on how to resolve is greatly appreciated at this point. Thank you.
Sometimes if I place the umlaut character inside a cfinput or cftextarea, etc. all I get is the ä instead of ä. I have the umlaut characters as values in SQL DB but that info not displaying properly either. Also...within some ajax areas of the site, the umlaut characters are replaced with a box.
I've seen some posts throughout the web referring to using ISO-8859-1. Not sure if this is a fix all and if it's going to affect and mess up the rest of the site.
Ideas on how to resolve is greatly appreciated at this point. Thank you.
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