I tried your example (see right here-under) but it does not work.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html lang="fr">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
<title>Exemple de document HTML 4.01</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Un document français</h1>
<p>L'élève va à l'école et ceci est écrit en Français!</p>
</body>
</html>
For each French specific character, I get question marks in a diamond
(lozenge); see enclosed picture (here-under on Mac, in attachment on PC)

Thank you for your time.
D. Lauwers
