This happens on both Firefox and Safari, so I think it’s an iWeb thing... the html code specifies UTF-8 character encoding, but the pages render in Western.  There’s no way to change the encoding in iWeb.  Both browsers render correctly when UTF-8 is manually selected, and Safari does OK if UTF-8 is chosen as the default, but Firefox insists on initially rendering the page using Western encoding no matter what I do.  One would think that the browsers would respect the encoding specified in the html doc, no?

 

Addendum: it was Apache defaulting to non-UTF in the HTML headers... I fixed it on the server (briefly, see below), by using .htaccess files like so:

 

<Files *.html>

ForceType text/html;charset=UTF-8

</Files>

 

BUT: iWeb *overwrites* the entire folder when it publishes... so the .htaccess files go away, too. Hmmm.

 

Final (working) fix: in httpd.conf, put “AddDefaultCharset utf-8” in the VirtualDirectory for this site.