I'm working on ASP.NET MVC 5 app. Added utf-8 support in _Layout.cshtml but this not solving my problem. Only in shared _Layout.cshtml i get weird characters for static cyrillic text. I use devextreme components like grid, chart etc. but there is no problem the cyrillic letters are okay.
This is an example what i get:

Added lang="en" in head but not help.
'Профил'.encode( 'cp1251').decode( 'utf-8')returns'Профил'. - JosefZ