Inserting Japanese characters to SQL Server via CFMX

Question

What is necessary in the setup to save non-Latin characters
to SQL Server via CFMX form? The ColdFusion data source has the
Unicode option enabled (Enable Unicode for data sources configured
for non-Latin characters). The target field in the database is an
nvarchar. What else is necessary to properly insert and then later
display the non-Latin characters?
On Microsoft's site they describe the need to convert to and
from UCS-2 when accessing SQL Server via ASP. Is this type of
conversion relevant to CFMX?

Answer 1

jegrubbs wrote:
> What is necessary in the setup to save non-Latin
characters to SQL Server via
> CFMX form? The ColdFusion data source has the Unicode
option enabled (Enable
> Unicode for data sources configured for non-Latin
characters). The target field
> in the database is an nvarchar. What else is necessary
to properly insert and
> then later display the non-Latin characters?
- define db columns as "N" types
- ensure cf pages are utf-8 encoding:
--tag the files w/a BOM
--use
<cfprocessingDirective pageencoding="utf-8">
on each page
--use
<cfset setEncoding("form","utf-8")>
<cfcontent type="text/html; charset=utf-8">
in application.cfm or .cfc
- when doing INSERT/UPDATE make sure to use either unicode
hinting (N'text') or
cfqueryparam (making sure to turn on the unicode option for
that DSN in
cfadmin). cfqueryparam is the best choice.
also see:
http://www.sustainablegis.com/unicode/greekTest.cfm
> On Microsoft's site they describe the need to convert to
and from UCS-2 when
> accessing SQL Server via ASP. Is this type of conversion
relevant to CFMX?
nope the JDBC driver will handle that gruff. make sure you
use the JDBC driver
(name as ms sql server in cfadmin) and NOT the odbc bridge
thnig.