need help understanding diacritical encoding

[Steve Pruitt]

I have a form that posts diacritical characters.Ffor example, when my browser has the 
encoding set to utf-8 and the form posts the character É
the post data has these two bytes C3 and 89, which when echoed back on a new page is 
displayed as Ã?.  Can someone explain when the character is converted to two bytes how 
I get C3 and 89?


Thanks,

Steve Pruitt