UTF issue when moving from cf5 to cfmx7

Question

It's been long overdue so am moving from CF5 to cfmx7 on my hosting account.
The issue is that my hosting account has disabled cfcontent.
I am getting gibberish outputting utf data from my database. It works fine on cf5 but on cfmx7 I read someplace that you have to use cfcontent to output utf-8 correctly.
Is there any work around without having to use cfcontent?
I tried using cfprocessingdirective and cfheader tags to show utf but it didn't work. Any pointers or suggestions appreciated.
Best Regards
Sanman

Answer 1

ok, since it's "N" you should be good to go with transferring the data (it's
actually pretty simple). in cf5, write a page that does a simple query against
the table(s) containing your data, i guess just select TOP 100 or so rows with
the PK & the nText columns. simply output that query using a delimiter that you
can parse easily (commas between columns & quotes for the nText would be my
default choices). have a look at the output to make sure it's readable. if all's
well, on the cf7 (or whatever) box do a cfhttp call to that cf5 page & dump out
the cfhttp.fileContent or result if you use that. if it's still readable, then
you can do the real xfer by:
- backing up the original table
- double checking that the backup is ok
- triple checking that the backup is ok
- adding another table w/just PK & nText columns
- filling that with the properly encoded data
- then do a join UPDATE against the old table