French characters and CFXML

Hello people, I'm having a problem and I'm not sure what I'm
doing wrong.
I have created a CMS for a kindergarten in Montreal. They
speak French.
In this CMS they can create new photo galleries and upload
their photos.
In order to do this, I have a form that creates the gallery
and write it into a mySQL database. Then, once all the images for
this gallery have been uploaded, an XML file is created, which will
feed a flash gallery.
The problem occurs when the name of the gallery they enter
has special French characters. It is being written properly to the
DB, but at the time the CFXML creates the XML code or at the time
cffile writes the xml file itself, those characters get corrupted.
I'm attaching the code that queries the DB and creates the
XML code and file.
Any hint will be appreciated.
Thanks a lot.

Hi Dani,
I was also facing one issue with forming an xml using cfxml tag. There is a sybmol yen ¥ (start of a LIN tag in below example) which is there in the xml and when i try to dump the xml variable it shows one more character Latin capital letter A (Â) automaticall added in the variable and my request to the webservice fails due to the same reason.
<cfxml variable="request1">
        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
        <peticion>
            <nombre>Request</nombre>
                <observaciones>2 CONNECTING ROOMS </observaciones>
                <num_expediente>522687</num_expediente>
                <forma_pago>25</forma_pago>
                <telefono/>
                <res>
                    <lin>2¥#1#SS#84.87#0#HB#OK#20120713#20120714#EU#1-2#D01#</lin>
                </res>
            </parametros>
        </peticion>
    </cfxml>
Cfdump or xml parse will add one more character (Â) to the xml string.
Your comments/answers are welcome.

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