I'm not a very experienced web designer and I have come across a problem which I cant work out how to solve.

I have been asked to design a site in greek. I coded it in charset=utf-8 which appears in the meta tags. I have also changed the config file on my apache server to supposedly show greek characters.

The page is fine locally but when I upload it to the server and view it online it just comes out as symbols.

Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong?

can you give us the adresse of the page, just by curiosity.
I'm wondering if your server is not using a specific encoding that may override your page declaration...

show us the code. both the head seciton of the pages and the .htaccess file.

and paste in some of those greek characters too. i'd like to see.

I solved the problem by changing the default char set to the charset-utf-8 in my apache config. I'm assuming that this wont cause me any other probs in the future.

My site works now, but I think you must be right about the fact that something overrides the char set in the html. Any ideas what this could be?

I think you just anwerd your own question...