title: French accents in meta tag's content
body: <p>I have french accents in a meta tag's content section. Example:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="description" content="à Québec référence" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>When I look at the page source I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta name="description" content="Ã  QuÃ©bec rÃ©fÃ©rence" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've tried using <code>&amp;agrave; Qu&amp;eacute;bec r&amp;eacute;f&amp;eacute;rence</code> but that's how it is displayed in the content section.</p>
  
  <p>I am using 
  <code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1" /&gt;</code> and I don't think this can change without messing up thousands of characters elsewhere in my project.</p>
  
  <p>How do I get it to look like the first example, is there a php function to use? Thanks.</p>
  
  <p>Also an explanation of why it gets translate to 'Ã  QuÃ©bec rÃ©fÃ©rence' would be nice.</p>
  
  <p><strong>UPDATE</strong></p>
  
  <p>I've figured out a solution. Programs like Aptana Studio and Notepad++ were saving the characters in a strange way. I used notepad to edit it and saved it with that and that seemed to solve the problem. Thanks for all your quick responses. Much appreciated. :)</p>