I just did a fresh install of v1.5.3, including demo data. Logged into Admin, and cannot duplicate your problem. Editing any EZ-Page works fine, for all the combinations of settings I can come up with.
Mine is set up using USA, English, UTF-8. Not sure what's unique to yours that makes only yours have problems.
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