Weird utf-8 behavior

In a multiple language site I have something very odd going on. Everything in Greek is displaying fine (dynamic and static content) The only thing that is not is the initial value for a select box which I have declared in a function like this:


<cfset result[1][2]="-- &#917;&#960;&#953;&#955;&#941;&#958;&#964;&#949; --">

Should I set some encoding within the function?

This is solved: I forgot to set the utf-8 connection string in the Administrator