Re: BuddyPress with danish letters
If the ‘ meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ ‘ in page head doesn’t help (it also didn’t help to me for Sk.) then placing ‘AddDefaultCharset UTF-8’ line into your .htaccess file will do it for you! 
Without the two ‘ just like below. Let me know whether it’s what you want. Make sure you save/upload the file in Text ASCII mode (not like images that transfer in Binary mode – your site could go blank till you re-upload it properly.) The file editor in cpanel does this safely if you aren’t sure.
AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
If you use this in .htaccess file you will no longer need to include that meta tag in the head. BTW MYSQL is UTF-8 default also so no worries at all.
If it’s your apache server you can change this directly in the ‘httpd.conf’ file. I think Apache’s internal default charset is iso-8859-1.
