title: Diacritic characters are not rendered correctly in my browser
body: <p>For internal test reporting, I created an HTML file that renders data onto the screen that is loaded through the JQuery Get method. The test data is in JSON format.</p>
  
  <p>The problem I have is that data that contains diacritic characters (ï, ô, à etc.) isn't rendered correctly. This data string: <code>&lt;{[Spécïàl Châr's!@&amp;]&gt;</code> is rendered into my reporting as <code>&lt;{[Sp��Ch�s!@&amp;]&gt;</code>. The original string in the text file is correct displayed in notepad++.</p>
  
  <p>Flow: </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>VBScript is creating a textfile through the filesystemobject,
  CreateTextFile method. </li>
  <li>The txt file containing JSON strings is read
  by JQuery $.get into an array of JSON strings</li>
  <li>Each JSON string is parsed by JQuery $.parseJSON into javascript objects</li>
  <li>The objects are processed by JQuery to create a nice view</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>The HTML file where the data is rendered has the following meta data:</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;</code></li>
  <li><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=8; charset=UTF-8"/&gt;</code></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>I already tried to change the doctype into W3C doctypes, the content attribute to 'text/html' variants and the charset attribute to 'ISO-8859-1' variants but nothing seems to render my data correctly.</p>
  
  <p>Could someone please give me a hint what I could do to detect in what part the problem resides?</p>