My server is Apache 1.3.x at home, and I'm using the lastest version of MovalbeType (3.17).
I had a problem with some special characters that appear as odd symbol when trying to add some RSS feeds to my main index template. The feeds did appear ok in iso-8859-1, but not in UDF-8 (that's my charset for movabletype) ...
My solution
1. Create a new template with this meta-tag :
CODE
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xml; charset=iso-8859-1" />
2. In this new template add all the code lines you need to get your RSS feed, I use MT-Feeds 2.0, save this new template.
4. Go to the main template, where you want the RSS feed to appear, (your main template charset is already set to UTF-8): you MUST use a iframe to refer to your new template, this DOES NOT work with MTInclude file tag, example:
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<iframe src="http://www.mySite/mt-static/newTemplate.html" width="196" height="360" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" marginwidth="10" marginheight="0"><?php
include ( "http://www.mySite/mt-static/NewTemplate.html");?>
</iframe>
include ( "http://www.mySite/mt-static/NewTemplate.html");?>
</iframe>
That does the job for me
P.S: maybe there is a better way to do the same thing, but as a newbie, I'm satisfied (for the moment)