UTF-8 encoding Funny characters in DB

Dear All,

I am Facing a Critical issue which has been lagging, dragging from 3 days, still couldn't figure out an issue

I've an XML file which am Getting it from a Server using
<cffile action="READ" file="#application.settings.paths" variable="xml" charset="utf-8">

and using an XMLPARSE to parse that xml and trying to insert that xml data into Database, in XML i've these

characters master ’s, which should be like a single quote encoded like this but when saving to Database

using a coldfusion query, Data is saving as some Funny Characters (i.e., master ?s),

xml encoding is in UTF-8 and i don't know how to convert that zunk characters to normal characters like ( master's) - single quote)

here are the things i tried.

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in Coldfusion Administrator i added a Connection String "useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=UTF-8"
and checked the box which says " enable unicode for datasources configured for non-latin characters"

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• Used a ConvertCharset Function passing xml object .. [/li]
  
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  ii)
  <cfscript>
  function convertCharset(str,charsetFrom,charsetTo)
  {
  var resultStr="";
  var javaString="";
  var byteArray="";
  
  javaString = CreateObject("java", "java.lang.String");
  javaString.init(str);
  
  byteArray = javaString.getBytes(charsetFrom);
  
  resultStr = CreateObject("java", "java.lang.String");
  resultStr.init(byteArray,charsetTo);
  
  return resultStr.toString();
  }
  </cfscript>
  
  
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• 
  
  <cfcontent type="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
  <cfset setEncoding("URL", "UTF-8")>
  <cfset setEncoding("Form", "UTF-8")>
  
  
  
  
  tried this method also http://www.bennadel.com/blog/1206-Content-Is-Not-Allowed-In-Prolog-ColdFusion-XML-And-The-Byte-Order-Mark-BOM-.htm[/b
  
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  Please let me know if i need to do anything.. other than the above methods,
  
  Thanks