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in reply to Differences in UTF-8 html form

Dear Monks,
I've found the reason of the differences.
In Debian versions Apache in configured with
# Default charset to iso-8859-1 (ttp://www.apache.org/info/css-securit +y/). + AddDefaultCharset on
which completely ignores the encoding given in META tag and uses always the default encoding. In Apache installation under OpenBSD the parameter was not present and so was correct.
When I removed that nasty parameter everything worked on Debian also...
Hope it helps you, too!