Broken accent characters when Copy / Paste into ASP .Net

Question

I am copy pasting from an MS word document into an ASCX file. When I view the ascx file, the accented characters appear normally. BUT, when the page is rendered through my ASP.net application, the accented characters are broken:

Une promenade dans un verger ensoleillé, un peau de pêche délicatement parfumée… Les plaisirs du printemps vous attendent!

The page is specifying UTF-8 encoding which I believe is required to show them correctly.

<meta content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv="content-type" />

Normally, this works fine and the accented characters appear normally (other pages I have created on the same site still show correctly). BUT, now I can't seem to get this to work right. So previously, I have no issues with this, but now I cannot see what I have done different.

Answer 1

My ascx file was loaded into another ascx which was ANSI encoded. When I both were encoded UTF-8, the characters displayed normally.