Determine the page encoding (performed by ColdFusion)

  1. Use the BOM, if specified on the page.

    Adobe recommends that you use BOM characters in your files.

  2. Use the pageEncoding attribute of the cfprocessingdirective tag, if specified. For detailed information on how to use this attribute, see the cfprocessingdirective tag in the CFML Reference.

  3. Default to the JVM default file character encoding. By default, this is the operating system default character encoding.