Encoding mismatch between HTTP header and <meta> tag

[Mr Initial Man]

I validated my pages, and I ran into a major glitch.

The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (iso-8859-1) is different from the value in the <meta> element (utf-8).

Can I change the HTTP header somehow, or must I adjust the <meta> tag?

[Fang]

First line of the document:<?php
header("content-type: text/html;charset=utf-8");
?>
or in .htaccess (http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-htaccess-charse)

[Mr Initial Man]

What if I have access to neither?

[Fang]

Ask (beg) the provider to do it.

[Mr Initial Man]

I've got a site posted in two places (one is Furtopia, the other is Furnation), and Furnation's got SQUAT for server-side support. That's why I asked.

I just switched over the encoding to iso-8859-1