Umlauts and other special characters problem

Hi there,

I am using FCKEditor in an AJAX Project. When I call an external save function (not the one which is called from the toolbar), the updated HTML should be saved via an AJAX request from Mootools.

This seems to be quite ok but whenever I type in more than one paragraph into the editor and save it, the MySQL database only contains the first paragraph.

Also, when I enter special characters (umlauts etc.), the GetHTML() method only returns the HTML code UNTIL the special character and nothing else!

(the code returned from the GetHTML / GetXHTML(true) method would look like that:

<p>Test Text

but the editor source code view shows

<p>Test Text &auml;</p>

)

Could someone please help me? It is a bit urgent because my project has to be finished very soon.

Thanks very much in advance!

Daniel

PS: I have already tried to change the character set to utf-8 or so but that doesn't help.