Thanks Esmi for your input.
No gears used at the moment. This is really odd.
If I copy paste from within wp it’s fine, if I copy something outside of wp and paste it in, it reverts back to the old text…
I thought it was client side but doing the same from a Fedora equiped laptop has the same results.
I’s a new site and not much content, I think I’ll trash it and start clean. I have other wp on the same host, same rev level and same plugins and they are ok.
Spent too much time on this.
Thanks again and I’ll close this.
Nick