UTF-16 and FCKeditor

You are mixing up the encoding of the page and the encoding JavaScript (i.e. FCKeditor) works in. Here's how it works. A page can be in any encoding, as long as it is identified properly either through Content-Type or equivalent <meta> tag. Let's say your page is in UTF-8. When the browser reads this page, it converts characters, including 3-byte characters to UTF-16 (well, UCS-2, really, but that's the same as far as this goes) and feeds it into JS. JS works only with UCS-2 characters and when it's done, the browser takes the content of the textarea and encodes it back to the original encoding of the page (UTF-8 in this case). Server side script receives this and converts to whatever your server-side expects. For example, if you work with ASP, you have to set the code page to 65001 (UTF-8) and then you will receive proper UTF-16 characters.

Andre