Japanese pages

[chuck1rar]

I have just upgraded from MX6 to CFMX7 on a machine that also runs apache 2.0.5
now when I open my website which is in Japanese the characters are not
displayed properly and it is just all garbage...even if I change the IE
encoding settings still not right..not sure if it is a apache thing or due to
CF???

Thanks

[PaulH]

what exactly do you see when you say "not displayed properly and it is just all
garbage."? is this for text from a database or static? what encoding did you
use before? if your text is from a database, what database? what driver? is
there a page we can see?

[chuck1rar]

It is just static text and encoding before was SJIS.
So how do I set the default encoding in CFMX7?

[url]http://www.nathess.com/company/aboutus.cfm[/url]

[PaulH]

how was it set before? mx 6.x also defaulted to utf-8.

if you wnt the whoel cf server to run under tha encoding then in
cf_root/lib/neo-runtime.xml file change the UTF-8 in

<var name='defaultCharset'><string>UTF-8</string></var>

to Shift_JIS (or its aliases).

if you don't want to change the whole server then for just that application:
(application.cfm or in application.cfc)
<cfset setEncoding("url","shift_JIS")>
<cfset setEncoding("form","shift_JIS")>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=shift_JIS">

at the top of your cf pages add:
<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding="shift_JIS">

[chuck1rar]

Yes u were right that CFMX6 used the same default and changing it to SHIFT_JIS
did not make any difference.
So I assume it must be somethign DWMX..
FOr example when u changed the encoding to ShiftJIS did u see the below text
dieplayed as this??

Is this what see as the top left menu name?
??????
Is the below text what u see on the first line of the body text
??????????????A?????????????????????????E????

If so then the body text is just garbage...it is not being encoded properly
and I have no idea why since this was fine a few days ago when I was still on
CFMX6..Any further ideas???

Thanks

[PaulH]

yes that's what i see for the "top left menu name". not sure which part you're
referring to for that other text snippet. if the body text is garbaged then
probably entered using a different encoding. just get your encodings straight &
you should be good to go.