[Zope] Character display issues upgrading 2.8.8 to 2.9.8

[John Schinnerer]

Aloha,

I am in the process of moving from zope 2.8.8 to zope 2.9.8 (running on 
debian 4.0).

I am transferring individual zope sites from 2.8.8 instance to 2.9.8 
instance via export/import. So far everything is fine except...

I have some content in StructuredDocument objects that includes text 
with some accented French characters, and some of the curly quotes (the 
6--9 quotes) and "real" apostrophes and that sort of thing. They are not 
displaying correctly in the 2.9.8 zope - they show up as whatever symbol 
the browser uses to say "oops, can't display this correctly."

Both zopes are running on my dev system and I'm looking with all the 
same browsers so it seems it must be something to do with zope handling 
the characters (or not).

The zope.conf settings for default-zpublisher-encoding are left at the 
default (iso-8859-15) in both instances, if that is relevant.

I've never had any problem like this before, such as in previous 
upgrades of 2.7.x to 2.8.x. I don't even know where to look, aside from 
the zope.conf setting above which is the same in both cases.

Any ideas why this is happening?
Any help appreciated!

thanks,
John S.

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