Characters that aren't the right one in teh coldfusion

I'm not a Coldfusion person, but i'm having a problem, the thing is that i have a person on my machine that uses Coldfusion and ASP, and he inserts French Characters in teh database, but when he goes and look in it they are weird characters.

He said that when he goes in manually to change themt o the right character its ok. So i'm thinking, maybe the windows box doesn't have the french characters support if that...

Anyone has a idea of suggestion?

Hello;

I got same problem. Did you find a solution ?

thks

Same thing happens with Spanish, when letter have accents they turn into wierd boxes when i cfoutput the variable.

i know this wasnt much help srry

system fonts are one thing to check, but it would also seem like a good starting point to check what characters the db manager will accept and what the data type is for the field in which these characters are stored. i know mickey mouse databases like access will choke on some character types stored within text fields.