title: Problem with special characters after migrating a web project
body: <p>I had several HTML files on an Apache server which had special characters. For example, they have © instead of <code>&amp;copy;</code>. They were working fine but once I migrated those files to a new server (also Apache), all those characters are not properly being displayed in the browser.</p>
  <p>I know it'd be better to replace those characters with HTML entities, but as they are thousands of them I just can't do it in a short period of time. So, my questions are: is there any configuration directive on the Apache server that has to be changed in order to server those files correctly? Can it be solved by changing the HTML meta headers?</p>
  <h3>Edit</h3>
  <p><em>Geert</em> has given the correct answer to this kind of problems. Though, in my case there were some files encoded with ISO-8859-1 and the rest encoded with UTF-8. The solution was to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-8, which can be done by using <code>iconv</code>:</p>
  <pre><code>iconv --from-code=ISO-8859-1 --to-code=UTF-8 ./from.php &gt; ./to.php
  </code></pre>