Thanks for getting back to me on this.

I have checked the three php files you mentioned and they "appear" to be correctly set to UTF-8. Perhaps I should send you a zip file of them as I may be overlooking something.

I am using copy/paste and also typing in the characters. The same result...

I am not using Ckeditor. Plan to install it but have not yet.

Regarding the website template having a meta tag indicating content to be utf8, I am not sure what file I should be looking at to check that. Could you let me know?

Thanks!