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September 23rd, 2003, 01:13 AM

pmt1

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Handling Japanese Character sets

Encountering difficulties in handling Japanese character sets - running MySQL with default language set at sjis on an apache server. Running CF MX 6.1 English.

I am posting a form containing both English and Japanese text. Form type is enctype="multipart/form-data"

I tried setting page encoding to shift-jis, using cfcontent tag and CFprogressivedirective tag but still the result is roman characters (squares and triangles) where there should be Japanese text in the database.

Through phpmyadmin I entered Japanese text directly and the output CF application displayed the Japanese text okay.

This is probably something real simple - is there a setting (global variable) on CF admin I need to set or some script I need to run.

Any ideas/input greatly appreciated

Thank you

September 23rd, 2003, 10:53 AM

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You mention mysql
which doesnt support utf afaik
can you post you form update code plz

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September 24th, 2003, 09:10 AM

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Thanks for the response

Code is as follows (its an update/insert routine) really straightforward stuff - I have tried many things to get this to run. Do you know if there is a setting in the MySQL database connection I need to add defining character set encoding?

Cheers

<html lang="ja">
<head>
<title>Sales and Marketing Lead Action</title>
<meta http-equiv="content-style-type" content="text/css; charset=x-sjis">

<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="Shift-jis">

<cfif IsDefined("Form.Record_ID")>

<cfquery name="GetRecord" datasource="#recruit.DS#">
Update mktgcnt SET
firstname_eng = '#Form.firstname_eng#',
firstname_jp = '#Form.firstname_jp#',
lastname_eng = '#Form.lastname_eng#',
lastname_jp = '#Form.lastname_jp#',
position_eng = '#Form.position_eng#',
position_jp = '#Form.position_jp#',
organisation_jp = '#Form.organisation_jp#',
organisation_eng = '#Form.organisation_eng#',
street_eng = '#Form.street_eng#',
town_eng = '#Form.town_eng#',
city_eng = '#Form.city_eng#',
state_eng = '#Form.state_eng#',
zip_eng = '#Form.zip_eng#',
country_eng = '#Form.country_eng#',
street_jp = '#Form.street_jp#',
town_jp = '#Form.town_jp#',
city_jp = '#Form.city_jp#',
state_jp = '#Form.state_jp#',
zip_jp = '#Form.zip_jp#',
country_jp = '#Form.country_jp#',
status = '#Form.status#',
sector = '#Form.sector#',
tel = '#Form.tel#',
fax = '#Form.fax#',
email = '#Form.email#'
Where Record_Number = #Form.Record_ID#
</cfquery>

<cfif Find("Finished",Form.Edit_OK)>
<cflocation url="mktg_contact_list.cfm">
<cfelse>
<cflocation url="mktg_connotes_edit.cfm?clientID=#Form.clientID#" addtoken="No">
</cfif>

<cfelse>

<cfquery name="PutRecord" datasource="#recruit.DS#">
Insert into mktgcnt

(firstname_eng,firstname_jp,lastname_eng,lastname_jp,position_eng,position_jp,organisation_eng,organ isation_jp,street_eng,tow

n_Eng,city_Eng,state_Eng,zip_Eng,country_Eng,street_jp,town_jp,city_jp,state_jp,zip_jp,country_jp,st atus,sector,tel,fax,email

)
Values

('#Form.firstname_eng#','#Form.firstname_jp#','#Form.lastname_eng#','#Form.lastname_jp#','#Form.posi tion_eng#','#Form.positio

n_jp#','#Form.organisation_eng#','#Form.organisation_jp#','#Form.street_eng#','#Form.town_Eng#','#Fo rm.city_Eng#','#Form.stat

e_Eng#','#Form.zip_Eng#','#Form.country_Eng#','#Form.street_jp#','#Form.town_jp#','#Form.city_jp#',' #Form.state_jp#','#Form.z

ip_jp#','#Form.country_jp#','#Form.status#','#Form.sector#','#Form.tel#','#Form.fax#','#Form.email#' )
</cfquery>

<cfif Find("Finished",Form.Edit_OK)>
<cflocation url="mktg_contact_list.cfm">
<cfelse>

<cfquery name="GetID" datasource="#marketing.DS#">
Select Max(Record_Number) as ID from mktgcnt
</cfquery>

<cflocation url="mktg_connotes_edit.cfm?ClientID=#getid.id#" addtoken="No">
</cfif>

</cfif>

</html>

September 29th, 2003, 03:23 AM

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try some other char sets
other than x-sjis

ms_Kanji , shift_jis ,csShiftJIS

September 29th, 2003, 09:14 AM

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cheers

got it fixed over the weekend - the solution was to add a connection string to the MySQL database connection in CF administrator, advanced database settings tab telling it to accept shift-JIS as a character set and then remove all charset information from pages (including meta tags)

wasnt the most obvious thing to me but I am not an expert CF user - but I sure wont forget it now ...

thanks

September 29th, 2003, 09:19 AM

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ah -
didnt know that myself as I dont use mysql as i dont find it robust 0r even capable for enough for my needs -

But worthly of note to add to my cf book of tips

June 18th, 2004, 12:42 PM

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japanese char's

Hi,

I saw that you was working around japanese chars.
i am trying to type jap chars in form and trying to insert them in to database. but not able to insert them. they get converted in to some ?..?/.. chars when they go in to database.
Do you know how do i do it.

Please respond,

Thanks,

Sid

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