Getting back 'accented As' when using CFHTTP

[Stephan Tual]

I'm using CFMX 6.1, database is MySql 4.0.13 with the
useUnicode=true&characterEncoding=ISO8859_1 connection string. My HTML
has a meta content type set to text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1.

I can enter, retrieve and display english text and special characters,
no problem.

BUT when I use CFHTTP from the same machine to read a dynamically
generated page and save the output as html, every special char on the
page gets prefixed by a an accented uppercase A.

For example, §8$¶Çþ£ becomes §8$¶Çþ£

I tried switching the charset attribute of CFHTTP to ISO-8859-1 from
default, same results.