Special Characters - French - Display Issue - CF 5

[ColdFusionKing]

I don't know how to escape special characters and display them in HTML Safe Format. This is a french banking application and there are banks with funny names, ex: Crédit France, Zürcher Kantonalbank, è, Ä, acute and the like. The bank Crédit France gets displayed like this on the browser: Crédit France. Can somebody please show me how to display it correctly. I've tried HTMLEditFormat() but it does change anything

Regards,
Allan

 

[ColdFusionKing]

here is what I want to do. I have the users in an LDAP Server. If I create an organisation with a special character say é, when displayed on the web page I see the funny charactes. I have now understood that adding the meta tag with utf charset in the application.cfm file can lead to unexpected results. I know there are only a couple of templates in my application that display the organisation name, and the only character that I want to escape is the acute (é), how can I avoid using the meta tag and in its place use something that does the job, I've tried the htmlSafe() udf but that does not display it correctly, is there a inbuilt CF function, I've tried the HTMLEditFormat(). Can you please show me how to do this.