Im sorry to throw in one more but before I forget about it...
I modified the EN language dublicate and it worked..kind of. When I entered the right coding for special characters in the editor it showed the coding...which is wrong. When I entered the character raw, without coding, it showed that character correctly..so..is the editor Im suing fabulous or I am doing this the wrong way?
Im thinking of adding AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1 OR AddDefaultCharset UTF-8 to my .htaccess..could this be what's causing it to work when it shouldn't?