Forum OpenACS Development: Response to Implementing locale-specific character encodings in gp/acs-lang

Well, that's what they do at babelfish.altavista.com (use Unicode). Unicode is of course more elegant. The feedback I've gotten is that it's not a good idea yet to send Unicode on a site, like Greenpeace Planet, where wide browser compatibility is a goal.

Dumping the meta tag sounds promising!