Foreign Fonts in dynamic XML

Question

I'm working on a learning language app, so far, that teaches
Thai to English speakers and English to Thai speakers. I'm pulling
lesson words from an access database that is storing foreign
characters just fine. Here is the xml page for the first lesson of
eng/thai -
http://www.netspeaknow.com/getlessonwords1.cfm
and code:
<cfquery name="getLastLessonID" datasource="langDB">
SELECT lastLessonID
FROM Users
WHERE userID = 1
</cfquery>
<cfif #getLastLessonID.RecordCount# EQ 1>
<cfquery name="getLessonWords" datasource="langDB">
SELECT LessonMP3.filePath, LessonWords.displayWord,
LessonWords.phonetic, LessonWords.definition
FROM LessonWords INNER JOIN LessonMP3 ON LessonWords.sndID =
LessonMP3.sndID
where lessonPlanID = 18
</cfquery>
</cfif>
<cfcontent type="text/xml" reset="yes">
<cfsetting showdebugoutput="No"
enablecfoutputonly="Yes">
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<cfoutput>
<results_packet>
<cfloop query="getLessonWords">
<rec displayword="#displayWord# - #phonetic#
/#definition#" sndurl="#filePath#" />
</cfloop>
</results_packet>
</cfoutput>
Here's the error I'm get trying create the same document with
Thai characters.
http://www.netspeaknow.com/getlessonwords2.cfm
I don't have any problem displaying foreign characters in my
browser:
Here's a page that is pulling the same data for the same
thai/eng lesson.
http://www.netspeaknow.com/lessonview_thai.cfm
Does anyone know how I can get foreign characters, not just
Thai, into my XML document?

Answer 1

skyhead03 wrote:
> <cfcontent type="text/xml" reset="yes">
> <cfsetting showdebugoutput="No"
enablecfoutputonly="Yes">
enablecfoutputonly="Yes", you need to wrap *all* the xml
output in a cfoutput,
no xml header/root is getting sent to the browser which is
probably what "XML
Parsing Error: not well-formed" is all about. try this:
> <cfoutput>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> <results_packet>
> <cfloop query="getLessonWords">
> <rec displayword="#displayWord# - #phonetic#
/#definition#"
> sndurl="#filePath#" />
> </cfloop>
> </results_packet>
> </cfoutput>
>
> Here's a page that is pulling the same data for the same
thai/eng lesson.
>
http://www.netspeaknow.com/lessonview_thai.cfm
that page is lying:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=iso-8859-1" />
might indicate other encoding problems lying in wait for you.
> Does anyone know how I can get foreign characters, not
just Thai, into my XML
> document?
"just use unicode"