Just for the record, I was using:
 Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.0.4) Gecko/2008103100
 SUSE/3.0.4-4.7 Firefox/3.0.4 

I have upgraded to 3.5.6  :-)

-glen

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From:         Erik Hetzner <[log in to unmask]>
Sender:       Code for Libraries <[log in to unmask]>
To:           [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Character problems with tictoc
Date:         Mon, 21 Dec 2009 12:14:54 -0800
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At Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:59:01 -0500,
Glen Newton wrote:
> Thanks, Erik, some useful tools and advice.

Glad to help!

> […]
>
> But I don't understand why Firefox was ignoring the
>  "Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8"
> It should not be using the default charset (ISO-Latin 8859-1) for 
> this content, as it has been told the text encoding is UTF-8...

It seems to work fine in my version of Firefox (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U;
Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.1.6) Gecko/20091215 Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic)
Firefox/3.5.6), with latin-1 default.

best,
Erik

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