Issues With Saving Unicode Pages in Visual Studio Put to Rest?

Good news for those who read my post Unicode in Visual Studio.NET 2003 and experienced problems outlined there.

According to MSDN, “Unicode and UTF-8 files that are saved with the byte order mark prefix are automatically recognized, regardless of the value” of the fileEncoding attribute of the <globalization> element.

I haven’t been able to reproduce the issue explained in the mentioned post. Anyone still struggling with this in VS 2K5? The wording “regardless of the value” gives me hope this problem has been resolved once and for good.

This is not exactly about the problem you describe, but i sure relates to VS and UTF-8: When I have a page and a related MasterPage, both saved from VS2005 in UTF-8, running the page causes all Danish letters residing in my master page to mess up. My browser (testet in FF and IE) identifies content correctly to UTF-8 and the contents of the actual page loads just fine - only the master page parts goes wrong. Saving the master pages as "western european" (leaving page and response encoding at UTF-8) solves the problem. To mere there seems to be some kind of inconcistency here, but it might just be me missing something. Why is this happening?

Hmm, this *is* odd. I wonder if anyone in the "audience" knows the answer.