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Ben Garrett

Member since Dec 11, 2008

Recent Blog Comments By Ben Garrett

  • Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

    Posted on Jan 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM

    If your trying to use special/high characters it is best not to copy them from other sources as they will probably be encoded in their own character sets which are often incompatible with each other. This is why you return a blank space. For example by default ColdFusion encodes pages in Western (La... read more »

  • Cleaning High Ascii Values For Web Safeness In ColdFusion

    Posted on Mar 11, 2008 at 5:52 PM

    Thanks guys for all your comments. I have been working at a solution of my own, inspired by some of the solutions here. I specifically wanted to convert all high characters with a value greater then 127 into XML safe hexadecimal characters. I came up with a small solution that doesn't rely on any ex... read more »

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