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When a cfm page created in home site (or any other plain text editor) is saved with a GBP pound sign '£' and opened in cfbuilder. cfbuilder cannot display this and just displays a small diamond box with a question mark in it.
If you save the page in cfbuilder and open it in any other text editor it displays £ (funny A with an accent on top and the £ sign).
By using ‘£’ or ‘#chr(163)#’ fixes the problem but this doesn’t help when opening someone else’s code (who has used just a simple ‘£’ sign), making any small change and saving – As soon as you save, cfbuilder overwrites all instances of the grey diamond with Arabic looking charaters – ‘�’
This is I highly critical bug and I reported it last September but Adobe have done nothing to fix this (that I can see) Bug ID – 80209 - http://cfbugs.adobe.com/bugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=80209
I have tested this on the following machines (with the new update)
The only time it seemed to work was on the Mac any PC installation displayed the same problem
Any help would be great – also if anyone else can confirm this issue and let me know (or post as comment on the bug tracker)
Cheers
PS I have found whilst googling a few replications of this problem with people on Linux machines (nothing to do with cfbuilder or eclipse) link below.
http://www.devcomments.com/unable-to-display-a-pound-sign-at104055.htm
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It's similar for me on Win Vista Professional 64-bit.
It seems to me like CFB is trying to open the file as UTF-8 when it hasn't been encoded that way?
If I save my test file (using notepad) as the default ANSI, CFB ballses it up. If I specifically save it as UTF-8, then CFB copes.
CFB should work, either way.
I've re-used this comment against http://cfbugs.adobe.com/bugreport/flexbugui/cfbugtracker/main.html#bugId=80209 and voted for it.
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Adam
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Cheers Adam,
Ive just found a link that explains how to change the way CFbuilder encodes files
http://sandeepp.org/blog/?p=159
However i cant change them as it appears to be locked.
Any idea how i can unlock the filetypes?
Cheers
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Locked or otherwise, you should still be able to change the encoding value. I can.
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OK just Typing in the box seems to work (my bad)
However I need to set the type as ANSI (which isnt supported apparently) any clues?
Ta
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Please stop posting everything twice.
ASCI has only 7 bit so the highest character is 127. Since you wrote you wanted #Asc(163)# that is not going to help. You probably want Latin1. If you can't find that, Google for the ISO code for that charset.
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I havent posted anything twice? (not on pupose anyway)
Cheers for the tip
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benalembick wrote:
I havent posted anything twice? (not on pupose anyway)
So Re: New Encoding-Problems with CFBuilder 1.0 is not the same 'changes locked' problem as in the third post of this thread?
Posting an issue once is enough and don't bump it within 24 hours.
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That was a completley different post with different people answering so i thought that some of the people who had contributed before might be able to help.
Just because your an Admin and see everything doesnt mean everyone else does.
Apologies if i offended you i was just trying to get an answer for a problem with a peice of software that costs well over the odds and still isnt fully working yet.
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Hey,
I just had a fiddle and it appears that using ISO-8859-1 appears to work.
Fingers Crossed.
Thanks for your help
PS can you see any problems in continuing to use this encodeing type?