Re: Retaining unicode from db to browser

["therearentanyleft" <webforumsuser@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thank you for your very helpful replies. I'm just picking this issue back up 
again...

 My hosting company said they can't add the  line 
"?useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=utf8" 
 to the end of the jdbc url in the dsn setup page in cf admin, because it would 
impact everyone in the virtual environment, of course. They also said they run 
only ODBC drivers and are not planning to use JDBC drivers. 

 Is my only option to go with a dedicated server? I want to avoid the expense 
if I can. Are there virtual environments that offer more flexibility. I'm 
currently with UplinkEarth. Has anyone been successful  delivering unicode 
characters in a virtual environment?