If you have problems in your Apache (or Apache2) server not showing ISO characters in your webpages, even if the charset is set in the pages, it’s probably a missing line in your httpd.conf file.
In Apache2 servers, the file is at /etc/apache2/apache2.conf
Open it and look for
#AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1"
and remove the # character. (this means uncommenting the line, for the newbies 
Restart the server by typing:
sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart
And your webpages shoud now look good.
