Garbage characters in web pages

Produced a page in iWeb then uploaded it to my webspace using Secure FTP. Now I have garbage characters in it with Â wherever there's a return and a bunch of garbage for every apostrophe.
Obviously I have some sort of problem with the character set but how to get rid of it?
I've tried copying text over from a TXT file without the returns, adding them later in iWeb, but it made no difference.

When I open iWeb
and open this project, I have no idea which set iWeb
will end up using. I have to check the file
attributes afterward to figure out which one was the
set "du jour".
You are aware that iWeb does not open published files, right? It only opens the Domain.sites file where its data is kept:
http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/iwebdata.html
Also iWeb cannot register any changes you make in a published site with an editor, so that needs to be redone every time the site is republished.
Normally if you have multiple projects it would be a good idea to keep their data in separate Domain files.
PageSpinner file open function cannot see any folder
or file created by iWeb except the one called "Sites"
and that one is empty.
I have no problem using PageSpinner to open the files created by iWeb. Since iWeb does not create anything called "Sites," I'm wondering if the Open function was going instead to Home/Sites or some other location rather than Home/Documents/HTML or wherever you published your pages.
As far as my ISP goes, I'll take your word for it,
but I can't imagine an ISP of this size getting this
wrong and not receiving/responding to complaints.
None of the major companies devoted to hosting web pages which most people use have this problem as far as I know. ISP's for whom hosting is a sideline sometimes do not pay attention to the issue and leave their server set to force all browsers to use ISO-8859-1 encoding. They will not likely get any complaints if their clients are all using Roman script and traditional web editors which default to that setting as well.

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