Junk Characters after FCK Parses

I'm trying to use fck 1.6. I'm noticing that there are strange characters being inserted into the database if someone pastes text in that has foreign characters or uses typographic quotes. Instead of turning these characters into their html entities when they are paste into the editor, they are being interpreted in some strange way, adding incomprehensible symbols.

For example, if you paste in the word "Everyone's" where the apostrophe is actually a typographic apostropher, this is how FCK returns it back:

Everyone’s

I'm not sure how the above text will look after I submit it, but, the apostrophe has been replace with three other characters (an a with an accent character over it, the Euro symbol and a TM symbol).

I'm ready to give up on this thing, because I'm finding way too many problems with it. But, if anyone knows how to solve this, it would help.