why Microsoft word’s special character are creating such type of problem in Apache server?

The web browser uses a META tag, written in the web page, to choose the character set (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Character_encoding) to display the characters or content in the web page.

For example, the following is the META tag found in a HTML file (web page) generated by MS Word:

With this tag the web page instructs the web browser to use windows-1252 to display the page. With this character set, the browser can display all the, so called, special characters properly.

Apache (atleast the default configuration) tells the browser to use UTF-8 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8) as the character set. The browser respects the web server more than the web page Commenting out this line tells the web browser to use whatever character set mentioned in the META tag of the page.

But can u guide me why Microsoft word’s special character are creating such type of problem in Apache server?