I have an external program for my wiki that grabs mwt.old_text and puts it in a text box. Any time there are special characters (E.G. ® © º (registered, copyright, degrees)) a capital A with an accent mark shows up before it. Im sure that this is just the way that it is store in the database, or an unicode issue, but how does mediawiki pull it with out this? You can see the problem here: (may be broken in IE) http://www.risdpedia.net/interface/easy_edit/index.php?title=Rust- Oleum_Specialty_High_Heat Thanks, -Adam