I have just transferred a site from iss on a windows 2003 to a 2008 server.
Everything is working as before, except some pages in Japanese and Korean, where the text comes out like a garbled mess:
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It looks like this.
The character encoding is set to UTF-8 as it was before. Is there a server setting that needs to be changed?
I worked out why this was happening - even though the meta tag set the page to be encoded in utf-8. An incorrect setting in IIS caused the mangling of the Japanese and Korean characters.
I fixed this in the following way:
Then everything started working as expected.