I created a new front page (html page & css stylesheet) using my good old copy of Dreamweaver. When displayed in a preview, it shows up as intended.

Head of the html page contains this:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Yet when I add the page using front page module, the î character displays as î.

Front page settings are:

Front Page override is ticked
Full Mode
Data: copy of the code on the page created in dreamweaver
Text format: full html

When I change the mode to "Themed", the characters display as needed (î instead of î), however, this defeats the purpose of using Front Page Module as it messes up the whole custom layout.

After some googling, I thought it maybe tried to apply the UTF twice, so I tried removing the <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />, but this doesn't change anything.

For the record, the rest of the Drupal site displays the special characters just fine.

Is this a bug? How can I solve this?