Is there a ColdFusion version of PHP's htmlentities?

[RGracia]

I need to provide a CMS area for some employees who will contribute to our site content. They will be writing in Spanish and as we know there are several special characters that will need to be converted into their html entities before inserted to the dB. I know that PHP's htmlentities takes care of that nicely but we are using ColdFusion. Is there an equivalent for ColdFusion?

[Guest]

There is a ColdFusion component called SmartType that may do what you want. Check out http://sebduggan.com/SmartType/

[Newsgroup_User]

> as we know there are several
> special characters that will need to be converted into their html entities
> before inserted to the dB.

Maybe in PHP, but not in CF. Just tell the browser to transmit UTF-8, and
your DB that it's being sent UTF-8; when you ultimately pull it back from
the DB and output it to the browser, do the reverse.

There's no need to horse around with HTML entities for this sort of thing.

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Adam