Adobe 38043740 - ColdFusion Standard - Mac Development Manual page 377

DEVELOPING COLDFUSION 9 APPLICATIONS
Developing CFML Applications
Tags and functions for controlling character encoding
The following tags and functions let you specify the character encoding of text that ColdFusion generates and
interprets:
Tag or function
cfcontent
cffile
cfheader
cfhttp
cfhttpparam
cfmail
cfmailpart
cfprocessingdirective
CharsetDecode
CharsetEncode
GetEncoding
SetEncoding
ToBase64
ToString
URLDecode
URLEncodedFormat
Functions for controlling and using locales
ColdFusion provides the following functions that let you specify and identify the locale and format text based on the
locale:
Tag or function
GetLocale
GetLocaleDisplayName
LSCurrencyFormat
LSDateFormat
Attribute or parameter Use
type Specifies the encoding in which to return the results to the client browser.
For more information, see
output" on page 371.
charset Specifies how to encode data written to a file, or the encoding of a file
being read. For more information, see
charset Specifies the character encoding in which to encode the HTTP header
value.
charset Specifies the character encoding of the HTTP request.
mimeType Specifies the MIME media type of a file; can positionally include the file's
character encoding.
charset Specifies the character encoding of the mail message, including the
headers.
charset Specifies the character encoding of one part of a multipart mail message.
pageEncoding Identifies the character encoding of the contents of a page to be
processed by ColdFusion. For more information,
character encoding of a ColdFusion
encoding Converts a string in the specified encoding to a binary object.
encoding Converts a binary object to a string in the specified encoding.
Returns the character encoding of text in the Form or URL scope.
charset Specifies the character encoding of text in the Form or URL scope. Used
when the character set of the input to a form, or the character set of a URL,
is not in UTF-8 encoding.
encoding Specifies the character encoding of the string being converted to Base 64.
encoding Returns a string encoded in the specified character encoding.
charset Specifies the character encoding of the URL being decoded.
charset Specifies the character encoding to use for the URL.
Use
Returns the current locale setting.
Returns the name of a locale in the language of a specific locale. The default value is the current
locale in the locale's language.
Converts numbers into a string in a locale-specific currency format. For countries that use the euro,
the result depends on the JVM version.
Converts the date part of a date/time value into a string in a locale-specific date format.
Last updated 1/20/2012
"Determining the page encoding of server
"File data" on page 377.
see"Determining the
page" on page 370.
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