David Crossley wrote:
> 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.

Ah, following through from
 http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/FOR-877
to the linked issue:
 https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23421
provides very educational reading on this matter.

-David