ColdFusion Changing Spanish Characters

For some reason ColdFusion seems to be changing some spanish characters. I've narrowed it down to ColdFusion (or maybe IIS 6 scripting handler) because the text comes out fine on a plain .html file but simply changing it to .cfm causes the characters to come out incorrect. Any help would be great! Thanks
P.S. The screenshots above look far better when I'm editing this post vs viewing it, not sure what's going on there.

Very cool! Glad I could help. Internationalization, oh man, that's gonna be a fun challenge!
I think ColdFusion has tons of great Locale-based functions to help ensure that it caters itself to the consumer as best it can.
The <cfprocessingdirective> is usually used to encapsulate information that you want to modify whitespace or character encoding on, but are you using <cfcontent> without specifying the encoding anywhere? Usually, CF outputs content encoded as UTF-8 (though it operates internally at UTF-16), but if a <cfcontent> is used at one point and doesn't specify the encoding, then CF is sometimes set to auto-determine the encoding.
I'm not sure if setting a header from the server-side down is an option, or, if you could utilize a meta tag to do likewise.

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