Why is IE failing to show UTF-8 encoded text?

Question

I have a some Chinese characters that I\'m trying to display on a Kentico-powered website. This text is copy/pasted into Kenticos FCK editor, and is then saved and appears

Answer 1

This may be the same kind of thing that caused Rails 3 to add a snowman character to their output: What is the _snowman param in Ruby on Rails 3 forms for?