Question

We need to send email which contains Pound (currency) symbols in ColdFusion. Before sending email, we are dumping the data into a html file for preview.

1. How to send a email with utf-8 encoding in ColdFusion
2. How to save a file with utf-8 encoding in ColdFusion

Answer 1

E-Mails are sent in the encoding that is specified in the ColdFusion Administrator. For ColdFusion MX (6.0) and up this is UTF-8 by default.

You can explicitly mention the encoding like this, but it should not be necessary.

<cfmail type='text/html; Charset=UTF-8' ...><!--- body ---></cfmail> 

For the HTML file you dump to disk, the following applies:

<cffile action='write' charset='UTF-8' ...> 

And you should have the encoding as a META tag, so the browser you use for preview does not have to guess:

<meta http-equiv='Content-Type' content='text/html; Charset=UTF-8'>