[@chrishajer Participant 16 years, 6 months ago]

This is the problem right here:

<?php bloginfo('html_type'); ?>

bloginfo is a WordPress function, but you’re in bbPress. Try hard coding it like this <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> as it is in the default theme, and I think you will find that it works.