[drupal-support] Charset problem

[Steve Dondley]

I'm using mysql 3.23 and Drupal 4.5 on an Apache/Linux server, PHP 
version 4.10.  My older version of MySQL stores all text as latin1, the 
equivalent of iso-8859-1 extended.  But I notice that Drupal outputs 
pages using the utf-8 character set. This is causing problems with the 
extended iso-8859-1 characters (Micorsoft's curly quotes, etc.) and they 
usually show up as question marks in the text.

To solve the problem, I changed the charset argument in the 
drupal_set_header() function to iso-8859-1.  This took care of the 
problem.  But now, of course, any UTF-8 encoded text shows  funky 
characters.

What's the best way to get Drupal to output both UTF-8 and iso-8859-1 
extended characters properly?