I’v deployed a work on one of my clients – a french one – server and even using charset=”UTF-8″ meta in HTML, some characters were displayed different from what they should.

cópia was showed cópia

I had to add the following line to .htaccess – forcing the Charset to be UTF-8

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

or

AddDefaultCharset Off

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.0/mod/core.html#adddefaultcharset