how i bottom out perplexity impression encoding problem wordpress blog?

i am attempting start new wordpress blog. i am observant humorous characters browsers nonetheless others instead unparalleled quotes, double quotes ellipses. things i already guess of:

• the html template page output
  itself set utf-8


• the admin page utf-8


• the mysql database tables where the
  data stored utf-8 encoded


• i am entering unchanging keyboard (')'s
  and (")'s (...)'s pasting in
  from another application.


• i am controlling wordpress's out-of-the
  box wsywig

browsers looks wrong (for example): firefox windows, ie7 windows
browsers looks fine (for example): firefox os x, safari os x

where i here?