my guess is that you haven't set your browser correctly, you have to enable unicode (utf-8) or automatic selection. Hard to say without a link to your page. However, modifying the language file as you did might be a solution for you. Does the demo look as expected for you?
I try again.
Your norwegian demo-page display OK in Opera 8.0 and encoding set to 'automatic selection'.
Your norwegian demo-page display OK in IE6.20 and encoding set to 'automatic selection'.
But not on similar pages served from local machine.
What is different is web-server. I belive this is not a browser issue.
I guess I have to look at server settings in apache and php on the local server.
I get "<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />" on both local and your demo-pages.
I guess the browser gets information from web-server about content encoding, not only by reading html-page. If it only was by reading html-pages; it would not be an issue as the pages are identical.
Pages displayed with error in encoding - saved to disk - opened again - display OK.
coppermine from 1.32 - 1.35 have behaved very well on language, served from apache-php-mysql package Xampp
http://www.apachefriends.org/ windows -version.
1.4 have never worked properly on (norwegian) language and the xampp package. So this is maybe a windows-apache-php problem.
what's you charset setting in your browser?
Automatic on both.
Mvh Andrez1