E-Mail; Http; Ldap; Wddx - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-DEVELOPING COLDFUSION MX Develop Manual

Database administrators configure data sources and usually are required to specify the character
encodings for character column data. Many of the major vendors, such as Oracle, Sybase, and
Informix, support storing character data in many character encodings, including Unicode UTF-8
and UTF-16.
The database drivers supplied with ColdFusion MX correctly handle data conversions from the
database native format to the ColdFusion Unicode format. You should not have to perform any
additional processing to access databases. However, you should always check with your database
administrator to determine how your database supports different character encodings.

E-mail

ColdFusion sends e-mail messages using the
By default, ColdFusion sends mail in UTF-8 encoding. You can specify a different default
encoding in the ColdFusion MX Administrator Mail page, and you can use the
of the and
cfmail
or part of a multipart mail message.

HTTP

ColdFusion MX supports HTTP communication using the
the
GetHttpRequestData
The tag supports making HTTP requests. The
cfhttp
encoding for passing data by default, and you can use the
character encoding. You can also use the
MIME type and character set of a file.

LDAP

ColdFusion MX supports LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) through the
tag. LDAP uses the UTF-8 encoding format, so you can mix all retrieved data with other data and
safely manipulated it. No extra processing is required to support LDAP.

WDDX

ColdFusion MX supports the
Exchange) data as UTF-8 encoding, so it automatically supports double-byte character
encodings. You do not have to perform any special processing to handle double-byte characters
with WDDX.

COM

ColdFusion MX supports COM through the
COM interfaces is constructed using wide characters (wchars), which support double-byte
characters. You do not have to perform any special processing to interface with COM objects.

CORBA

ColdFusion MX supports CORBA through the
interface definition language (IDL) basic type "String" used the Latin-1 character encoding,
which used the full 8-bits (256) to represent characters.
386 Chapter 17: Developing Globalized Applications
tags to specify the character encoding for a specific mail message
cfmailpart
function.
tag. ColdFusion stores WDDX (Web Distributed Data
cfwddx
,
cfmail cfmailparam
cfhttp
cfhttp
charset
tag
cfhttpparam mimeType
cfobject type="com"
cfobject type="corba"
, and
cfmailpart
charset
and
cfhttpparam
tag uses the Unicode UTF-8
attribute to specify the
attribute to specify the
tag. All string data used in
tag. The CORBA 2.0
tags.
attribute
tags and
cfldap