title: MS Office hyperlinks change code page?
body: <p>When you paste the following URL into IE: <a href="http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb897434.aspx</a>, the link on the right of the page cleanly says "Download Zoomit (77 KB)".  If you paste the link into an Office document (Word, Excel, PowerPoint -- tested using Office 2003), and activate the link from the document, that same text has picked up a couple of A-circumflex symbols.  This is because the source HTML contains "&amp;nbsp;" entities (non-breaking space) which get translated to Unicode 00A0.  In UTF-8, this is expressed as X'C2A0', and then the X'C2' gets displayed as a A-circumflex.  I don't completely understand how the code pages get mixed up like this, but I'd really like to find a HTML meta http-equiv charset value that will cause my pages containing the nbsp-entity to display properly even when linked from an Office document.</p>