International characters on Sharepoint sites

Have you ever noticed that your international characters, like our norwegian æ ø and å, just seems to disappear completely from Sharepoint pages and other content (ASP.NET UserControls etc) that are hosted in the Sharepoint context. It is related to the globalization settings for the Sharepoint site.

Edit the Sharepoint web.config file to reflect your local settings (utf-8 does not work for us norwegians):

<globalization fileEncoding="iso-8859-1" requestEncoding="iso-8859-1" responseEncoding="iso-8859-1" />

Maybe Microsoft should consider setting this property for us when we install a Norwegian version of their software?