Dr. Praveen Bhatia wrote:
> 
> Clearly, the charset is not getting set to UTF-8 in spite of settings that I
> did in forrest.properties, web.xml forrest.xconf, sitemap.xmap (xml
> serializer and html serializer).
> 
>   What settings I could be missing?

Some time in the past we had similar issues for our forrest.a.o site.

See $FORREST_HOME/site-author/content/.htaccess

#----------------
# FIXME: Do we still need this? See FOR-877
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
#----------------

That issue links to a some other issues which might provide
some background.

-David