Thank you for this thorough answer!
My browser is already using UTF-8 though and my problem has been solved.
It seems like you said that the html entity equivalent is still read out correctly in front-end and also interpretable when I imported my database. So that was not the problem to begin with.
Strange though that, in “manage database fields”, if I type with ??? in the “Help text” column and in the “Values” column, the help text has no problem but the Values column converts to HTML entity equivalent upon saving.
I tried to find these database entries in myphpadmin and converted them both to UTF8-swedish but it didnt make a difference.
How important this is you probably know best, but it is confusing for the user i must say. ??
Keep up giving great feedback!