How to fix Internet Explorer and Firefox form encoding issues when posting data to a server having a different encoding

This snippet explains how to fix Internet Explorer and Firefox form encoding issues when posting data to a server having a different encoding than the source system. This happens, for example, when you host a form on a server using ISO-8859-1 that posts data to a server using UTF-8. The fix for Firefox (and Opera and other sensible browsers) is to use the accept-charset attribute: ```html

``` The fix for Internet Explorer is to use a hack: ```html

``` The hidden input field will make Internet Explorer understand that you want it [to support UTF-8](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/153527/setting-the-character-encoding-in-form-submit-for-internet-explorer).