SerializeJSON doesn't encode UTF8 characters in ColdFusion 9

Question

I\'m having some issues with ColdFusion and JSON. My users have filenames and other key words with characters like ç in them which is causing me a pain when I

Answer 1

Do the conversion yourself : http://tojson.riaforge.org/ (native) or http://json-lib.sourceforge.net/ (via a Java library)

Answer 2

You need to specify the Character Set in your CFCONTENT tag. I tried this code in Google Chrome without charset and it returned the text correctly. However, FireFox 3.6 returned the incorrect characters you listed.

This correctly returns the UTF-8 characters in Chrome, FireFox and MSIE:

<cfcontent type="application/json; charset=utf-8">