tangor - 8:51 pm on Apr 13, 2011 (gmt 0)

Using charset=utf-8 is by far the best approach as it degrades (embraces) charset=iso-8859-1

Make sure all statements are the same... mixing them will introduce all kinds of unexpected results.

Referring back to OP's statement of using cut and paste to work on the website, perhaps your editor is the cause... not the declared charset...