Maybe I had a similar problem. This http://wordpress.org/support/3/12043#post-1 is what happened to me. Podz’s tip was fantastic and my Chinese characters are no longer nonsense. I took the advice and put into my .htaccess file:
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
hello again msteinruck,
if the above did not work then you can try this wordpress hack. i am actually using this method at the moment and it works well:
http://wiki.wordpress.org/show-one-category-on-front-page
good luck,
ben
