different view (template) - different display of characters

Hello,
I wonder how this could happen: special chars (ö, ß … including "
") look fine on "myProfile" page (via Login) and userList - but he same text does not in "wlpeViewProfileTpl"?

System info (extended with susan sottwell’s script (http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,21819.msg134586.html#msg134586) shows "database_charset utf8" and "database_collation - utf8_general_ci"
This seems funny to me cause even ajax search works propperly on this install. (db fields with collation swedish exist, as usual)
Wlpe has been added to a live site.

I know I remember seeing someone having an issue with UTF-8 characters in the &type=`register`, which was fixed.

Maybe the viewprofile code is missing that as well?

Did not find it yet.
But if i do the changes of "http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,18271.msg128249.html#msg128249" I have the opposite problem: the display of "wlpeViewProfileTpl" is fine but the others fail. In this case I would prefere display of the former (without the changes above) because a html entity (
) is shown approprate in userList and myProfile.

EDIT: solved partly
did the changes of http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,18271.msg132998.html#msg132998 again and reentered all users. "
" now apears as text and modx manager "webuser" lists show html entities in the according fields. (I think for the next site I’ve to talk with the hoster to get rid of the swedish collation within the db fields and have a clean utf-8 base.)
This should work for a while. Thanks to all who helped esp. Soshite and Susan.