incorrect display of chinese characters

Question: Are you typing those characters directly into the text input area (Write Post) or are you copying them from a word processor? Or maybe from a text editor that doesn’t have utf-8 support?

I tried the following input-methods:
-copying from word processor (word2003 actually)
-editing the html-code from the above method and deleting the information about the font-type and so on
-using hex code &#x4f53, decimal code &#20307
-copying from other websites.
Nothing worked

the original code &x4f53 is altered into &#228 semikolon and ??

It beats me… I just tried all the code you posted above in a test install and they all work properly; decimal, hexa, copying from here.
(OK, I didn’t try copying from Word, that’s a bug NO-NO for WP!)
Another question: are you using the stupid wysiwyg editor?

> Another question: are you using the stupid wysiwyg editor?
Yes I am, but the character ti3 4f53 is displayed correctly both in the editor and in the html edit window which opens from it:
editor: 简体字
html edit window: 简体字
blog: 简???字

I am quite sure that it must have to do with something on the server, but provider’s hotline couldn’t help me.

It’s the rich text editor. Turn it off. I, also, got your stuff to work in the normal editor.

Just out of curiousity: try to kill the wyswyg and see if it’s still borked…

O.k.:
https://karnuffel.de/2006/03/22/nochmal-chinesische-zeichen/

*sigh*

i just tried to validate the rss feed
https://feedvalidator.org/check?url=https://karnuffel.de/feed/
to see if it could give an explanation for that strange behaviour and i got this back:

line 27, column 15: ‘utf8’ codec can’t decode byte 0xbd in position 1048: unexpected code byte (maybe a high-bit character?) [help]

copied: ä??
^
Does that help? It somwhow shows that the &x4f53 code is not correctly parsed. But why?