Q:

Accented character in HTML META description

ISSUES
The website I develop has accented characters (mainly ö,ü). The charset is utf-8.
The accented characters are properly displayed in the browser but when I view the source in the META description there are question marks instead of the accented characters.
Why this happens?
I switched to ISO-8859-1 then in the META description the accented characters are OK but on the website there are undefined characters. (if I use 'Entity Codes' then the accented characters are OK but in that case I will have to make a lot of changes to my code so I would like solve it with UTF-8 if possible.)
My doctype is: xhtml1-transitional

A:

Your page has a mix of character encodings. The visible text is UTF-8 but the question mark characters in the description are not. To fix, just change the description to use UTF-8 characters throughout.

