I use Dreamweaver MX as my editor, and I changed the "Document Encoding" to be "UTF-8 (Unicode)" instead of the default "Western (Latin 1)", and now this works fine (at least as a hard-coded example anyway).
i.e. in Dreamweaver: Modify->Properties->Page Properties->Document Encoding
also I have changed the default for new documents to be UTF-8 within Dreamweaver: Edit->Preferences->New Document->Default Encoding
Hope that helps somebody out there.
Hugh Prior