Page encoding

I have a website using UTF-8 encoding and a annoying problem.

When I browse it locally (apache v2.0.47) I get wrong encoding in my web
browser (MS IE v6 and Opera v7) and I must manually select the right
encoding to make content readable.

However this problem disappears when I upload the page to other server (my
hosting provider). Pages are displayed fine right away (no need to manualy
select UTF-8 in browser settings).

I think the problem is with my local apache configuration, but I can't seem
to track it down.

Help anyone?


Thanks.