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The culprit was the o42-clean-umlauts plugin bundled with the German version of WordPress.

Even after converting the database to UTF8 (following the instruction found on https://jonkenpon.com/2007/02/20/making-your-wordpress-database-portable-because-it-probably-isnt-right-now/) and upgrading to 2.2 I am still unable to resolve my problem.

I’ve posted a small screenshot that illustrates the problem on ImageShack: https://img253.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wordpressjv3.png

For any ideas or help I’d be really thankful!

Sorry, there is no link as I’ve choosen not to publish the article in question (it’s malformed after all).

I use the built in WordPress (non-rich) editor on Windows XP. Results are the same when posting via MSIE or Firefox. The XML / RSS export function shows the correct characters, as well as the editor. Only the content that is shown on the website itself is (partially) escaped.

The charset of the the WordPress tables is latin1 (as choosen by the installer) – maybe this is the result of a buggy conversion of the latin1 data (back) to UTF8?