Chapter 17: Developing Globalized Applications - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

CHAPTER 17
Developing Globalized Applications
ColdFusion MX lets you develop dynamic applications for the Internet. Many ColdFusion
applications are accessed by users from different countries and geographical areas. One design
detail that you must consider is the globalization of your application so that you can best serve
customers in different areas.
This chapter contains information that you can use to develop applications that can be accessible
to many different users.
Contents
Introduction to globalization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372
About character encodings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 374
Locales . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 376
Processing a request in ColdFusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 377
Tags and functions for globalizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 379
Handling data in ColdFusion MX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 382
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