Font character set

For years I've been using this in my head section:
<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
even though I'm told that it is better to use this:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
The both character sets look the same in browser preview (and presumably online.)
However, with the latter, "more correct" charset, the fonts in Design View look too large and also bold, so I have stayed with the older charset.
Is this connected with the setting I use for fonts "Western European"?
Should I be using "Unicode" in DW 5.5?

Possibly.
Two things to check first, run your pages through the validators here (especially the html validator) and clear up any errors. It may just be a small error in your html that makes DW's Design View go nutty...
HTML Validator: http://validator.w3.org
CSS Validator: http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/
The CSS validator is a little less useful because it doesn't understand all of the vendor prefixes so it will throw more errors when there really aren't any.
If you clean your code completely and it's still happening, posting a link to a page on your server is preferred. As a distant second, the complete code of the page and css posted to the forum may help.

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    <font color = "maroon">exec</font> <font color = "maroon">utl_mail</font><font color = "silver">.</font><font color = "maroon">send</font><font color = "maroon">(</font> <font color = "maroon">sender</font> <font color = "silver">=&gt;</font> <font color = "red">'&quot;Database Check&quot; <[email protected]>'</font><font color = "silver">,</font>
    <font color = "maroon">recipients</font> <font color = "silver">=&gt;</font> <font color = "red">'&quot;Oracle DBA&quot; <[email protected]>'</font><font color = "silver">,</font> <font color = "maroon">
    <br>subject</font> <font color = "silver">=&gt;</font><font color = "red">'test email subject'</font><font color = "silver">,</font> <font color = "maroon">
    <br>message</font> <font color = "silver">=&gt;</font> <font color = "red">'message body text'</font><font color = "silver">,</font> <font color = "maroon">
    <br>mime_type</font> <font color = "silver">=&gt;</font><font color = "red">'text/plain charset=us-ascii;'</font><font color = "maroon">)</font><font color = "silver">;</font> 
    </font>
    Here's a screenshot of how the email appears on the client-side (Novell GroupWise. Outlook 2007 also displays it the same way). Please note I've blanked out the recipients name (which is displayed correctly, without the character set).
    http://oi53.tinypic.com/25usgme.jpg
    So why is the character set displayed? I've tried various combinations of using double-quotes and single quotes to no avail. Also the email is displayed perfectly fine if I use the old UTL_SMTP package!
    Please help!
    Thanks!
    Edited by: feersum_endjinn on 27-Jan-2011 03:00

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