Missing (replaced) polish characters after serving via IIS
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I have a page in ASP.net (VB) that I'm serving via IIS.

The page is basically a translation of the uk site.

I have:

     <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
 at the top of the code, and all the characters show ok in the code.

however in (all) browsers many of the special polish characters, such as 'Ł' are missing, replaced directly with 'L'.

Is this an IIS thing? or could it be something else?

