How does the web server choose between unicode and utf-8 for accented characters?

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Published on 2012-12-12T11:19:22Z Indexed on 2012/12/12 23:21 UTC
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I have a web server with my ISP which replaces accented characters in URLs with their unicode values: for instance é (eacute) is translated to %e9 (dec 233).

For testing locally I use EasyPHP which translates those characters by their utf-8 equivalence: é is then replaced by the well known sequence %c3%a9 (Ã©)...
Browsers served by EasyPHP don't decode unicode values but they do if running locally (utf-8 and non converted accent also)...

I have been unable to find where this behavior is configured in the server.

This is a problem as some urls are built by my application using the php rawurlencode() which seems to always encode with unicode values on both servers.
Any idea?

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