It's a character out of range for the encoding you're using on the page. Note, that you need to do more than just specify the encoding. You also need to actually write the document with that encoding. Here are a couple of links that have been helpful to me in the past.
Ben Nadel blogged about cleaning high-ascii values. I found some comments on this article particularly enlightening -- see "eric": http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1155-Cleaning-High-Ascii-Values-For-Web-Safeness-In-ColdFusion.htm >From the W3C: http://www.w3.org/International/O-charset http://www.w3.org/International/tutorials/tutorial-char-enc/#Slide0270 Check the settings in your code editor to make sure you are saving your files with the correct charset. If you are writing your pages from CF to a static page, don't forget to use the CFFILE charset attribute. This was the issue that bit me. Cheers, Kris > Does anyone know why these special characters would be showing up in output > (�)?  If you can't see it, it looks like a black diamond with a question > mark at its center.  The same character is even in the browser source. >  But, no such character is in our code. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:323818 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
