coldfusion flash integration: Hi
I'm using the content in a table as a title in a cfhart (flash) graph. Users
can change this content, and actually write anything - in any language. This is
not a problem if the user writes in English, or even in Chinese (with chinese
special chars). The text will display correcly in the graph. BUT - when a user
is using the Turkish langauge, the special Turkish characters are displayed as
? (question marks). Anyone got any ideas how to solve this? The browser itself
(IE) displays the text correcly, its only in the graph there is a problem. I'm
using the font: arialunicodeMS. The server is a MS server running with IIS.
Thanks in advance
Fredrik

CF version 6.1 (upgrade to 7 is not an option). Encoding UTF-8. We have tried
different encodings without luck. Since the graph is generated on the server,
should the local encoding matter? The browser still displays the text correct,
but not the graph...

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what ver of cf? what encoding are you using? there used to be issues w/flash
versions for some languages using unicode. try another format & see if that

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it's flash, clientside stuff matters. in any case, try changing the graph FORMAT
not the encoding. if you have a copy of the advanced cf6 book around, i put a
table in the i18n chapter detailing which graph formats worked w/which languages.

Sure,
here's an example. You can downlode the CF code by right-clicking on the "code" link (its a text-file)

http://scp.syncron.com/lang/

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can i see an example? sorry, i don't have access to a cf6 server to test

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not that it matters much to you, but it works ok under cf7 in all formats. i
guess i'll ping the cf folks (though being cf6 i'm not sure what to expect). in
the meantime, have you tried making the file UTF-8 encoded (ie has a BOM),
adding this to the top of the test file:

<cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8">

also you might help verify where the issue lies by running the webcharts.bat
file (cf install charting dir, run at the server)& building a simple graph using
turkish chars.

one of the team MM folks (Jared C. Rypka-Hauer) has a cf6.1 server & he
was good enough to run some tests. flash format was garbaged but PNG &
JPG were both ok. can you re-try those formats?

thanks for all the suggestions.. some answers:
* upgrade to CF7 is not possible for the moment.. unfortunately
* <cfprocessingdirective pageencoding="utf-8"> - tried it - no change
* webcharts.bat - we have no such file. webcharts.jar exists no bat file
* the page scp.syncron.com/lang shows all formats - none works with Turkish
* SQL Server 2000 is used - native driver (updated) - the result from the db
is shown correctly (with Turkish) in the <cfoutput> section - its only in the
graph where the garbage chars exists.
* to my knowledge all 6.1 hotfixes are applied (will check again)
* client flash version: 8, but has been tried on prior versions as well.

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dig around in the cf install dir, otherwise just run it from the jar (on the
server).

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well according to the jared's screen capture it works w/the other formats & the
way it's broken in flash is different, ie only some chars are garbaged. see
this: http://www.sustainablegis.com/images/turkishGraph.png

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same flash version as jared, though on a mac.

I have searched everywhere... no .bat file. In the jar file, there are only .class files.

I can see the difference, but I cannot re-produce this on our server/clients

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gets the errormessage:
Failed to load Main-Class manifest attribute from
C:\CFusionMX\lib\webcharts.jar