[Solved] Why are special chars not displayed correctly on my Debian systems?

[theprincy]

cat /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset
# Read the documentation before enabling AddDefaultCharset.
# In general, it is only a good idea if you know that all your files
# have this encoding. It will override any encoding given in the files
# in meta http-equiv or xml encoding tags.

AddDefaultCharset UTF-8

as I have said before, I tried both ways with both # ... that without #