well, it’s not me, it’s WP that replaces the character in the domain name, but apparently only in the css stylesheet and some other parts, for example, rss links, forms…
example:
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”https://test.0& #215;45.com/wp-content/themes/default/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />
<link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Anywhere but here… RSS Feed” href=”https://test.0& #215;45.com/?feed=rss2″ />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”https://test.0& #215;45.com/xmlrpc.php” />
i even tried a new installation, without using my old database for testing purposes, and it does it anyways.
the character encoding is utf-8, same as my old 1.5 installation which worked just fine.
i’m starting to believe it’s some sort of security mechanism, as “0x” could be interpeted as the begining of a hex number… does it make any sense?.