Special characters issue

Can you elaborate please?
Special characters like " – work fine here, both ways. Both if you paste them into source view and if you paste them into WYSIWYG mode. They are correctly marked up in both instances and show completely valid here.
Displaying as :

" –

when pasted into WYSIWYG mode, which then looks like :

<span class="xml-entity">&amp;quot; </span><span class="xml-entity">&amp;ndash;</span>

in source view.

Looks like :

" –

when pasted into source view and :

" –

when switching back to WYSIWYG mode afterwards.

You'll want to change the DOCTYPE http://docs.cksource.com/ckeditor_api/symbols/CKEDITOR.config.html#.docType if you are only using XML.

I likely think that either something in your CMS or other code is invalidating your tags.
Either that or you need to create a plugin to insert your code as source code, so that it appears correctly in the editor.
Like I say, it works fine here.

Thanks,
Zanpakutō