Hi,
I think the issue you were having is not related to any server
settings, but rather to the way your files
have been saved. If you save your files as UTF-8 you do not have to
touch any settings server side.

There is however a gotcha and that is related to how applications
detect the encoding of a file. Bluedragon appears to look
for a special character at the beginning of file to determine if it is
encoded as UTF-8, this Byte Order Mark is sometimes called BOM Flag.
It is invisible in most text editor but you will see it with a hex
editor. Dreamweaver users can set the BOM flag explicitly as part of
the page options.

Unfortunately eclipse has problems with this flag. Sometimes eclipse
does not create this flag and othertimes during editing the character
sequence is moved within the file thus breaking the encoding and then
the question marks appear.

I have some coldfusion code which traverses a folder and fixes the BOM
characters in all cfm and cfc templates. If there is interest I can
share the code.

I think moving away from utf-8 is a BIG step backwards. Sticking with
UTF-8 is the way to go.

just my .02 worth - YMMV
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