Outcome of problem with UTF-8 vs ISO-8859-1

I have managed to figure out how to do UTF-8 for everyting except input
boxes.  The problem is in this:

I input "étre" into a text field, if I use JavaScript to display the value
of the field, it says "étre".  But when it arrives at the server, it is
converted to UTF-8, which ends up converting the é into a two byte
character, but not the right ones (it is actually a ISO-8859-1 conversion,
not a UTF-8.  You can see the same effect by switching Eclipse into
ISO-8859-1 mode, create an HTML, put in an é, save it and reload it, you
great screwed up text.  Switch into UTF-8 mode, delete the garbage and
re-insert the é, save, reload, everything fine).

What I'm wondering is:  Does anyone know how to get the result of input
fields in UTF-8, encoded properly.  I can switch the charset of the page to
ISO-8859-1 and have it return proper values, but then the dynamic data will
not display properly on the UTF-8 pages (which is the mode I need to edit
them in inorder to use Eclipse).




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