Thank-you Chris! Changing, URLEncodedFormat(myvar) To URLEncodedFormat(myvar,"UTF-8") Did the job. - Erik -----Original Message----- On Behalf Of Chris Hayes Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 8:42 AM Check the ColdFusion MX Coding Guidelines Globalisation (Globalization) section here http://livedocs.adobe.com/wtg/public/coding_standards/globalization.html Although AFAIK it should all be UTF-8 by default. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Erik Mattheis" <gozz at gozz.com> >> I have a CFC which works fine with Flash Remoting but is not working as I >> want when it encounters Basic Latin characters such as accented vowels. > I'm >> running the query through a UDF function I got from cflib.org, > queryToXML. >> http://www.cflib.org/udf.cfm?ID=648