User Guide

SetEncoding 833

SetEncoding

Description

Sets the character encoding (character set) of Form and URL scope variable values; used when the

character encoding of the input to a form, or the character encoding of a URL, is not in UTF-8

encoding.

Returns

None

See also

GetEncoding, cfcontent, cfprocessingdirective, URLDecode, URLEncodedFormat;

“Locales” in Chapter 17, “Developing Globalized Applications,” in ColdFusion MX Developer’s

Guide

History

ColdFusion MX: Added this function.

Parameters

Parameter Description

scope_name • url

• form

charset The character encoding in which text in the scope variables is encoded. The

following list includes commonly used values:

• utf-8

• iso-8859-1

• windows-1252

• us-ascii

• shift_jis

• iso-2022-jp

• euc-jp

• euc-kr

• big5

• euc-cn

• utf-16