ColdFusion character encoding issue

Question

Let me start out by saying my end goal (in case I\'m incorrect in any of my assumptions or understanding of character encoding): I want the characters of my webpages to disp

Answer 1

What editor are you using? If you're using CFBuilder2+ the BOM mark should made everything UTF-8 by default. However if you're not, and your editor has no settings on setting BOM mark, then you'll need to use this as the first line of your cfm.

<cfprocessingdirective pageEncoding="utf-8">