The Database
First you need to use MySQL version 4.1+ as this offers two new character set for storing unicode data
- ucs2, the UCS-2 Unicode character set.
- utf8, the UTF8 encoding of the Unicode character set.
CREATE TABLE `person` (
\n `name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
\n `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
\n PRIMARY KEY (`name`),
\n UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`)
\n ) TYPE=InnoDB "CHARACTER SET utf8;
\n `name` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
\n `email` varchar(100) NOT NULL,
\n PRIMARY KEY (`name`),
\n UNIQUE KEY `name` (`name`)
\n ) TYPE=InnoDB "CHARACTER SET utf8;
The Datasource
Goto "Advanced Settings" and the connection string: "useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf-8"
The HTML page
In your Application.cfm place:
<cfset setEncoding("form","utf-8")>
\n <cfset setEncoding("url","utf-8")>
\n <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
Then on everypage that makes a DB call place:\n <cfset setEncoding("url","utf-8")>
\n <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding="utf-8">
And before you think it - no this cannot go into the Application.cfm, or be <cfinclud>'edFor more information goto http://mysecretbase.com/ColdFusion_and_Unicode.cfm. Matt Robertson explains in more details about this set up, including setting the HTML page as well.
And thats the bare bones of it.
I just want to say thank you to Paul Hastings for helping me on CF-TALK