Okay I went and deleted those 2 lines like you said. It works and I am allowed to type in Japanese. Appreciate the help. I don’t know why it worked but it did the trick. I don’t guess I’ll have to be doing that often, will I?
I’ve tried to both copy and type Japanese. Both of them look normal in the editor but when published it comes up as a bunch of ???. This is a fresh WP install. I installed it via cPanel and it should be the latest version. As far as encoding, I’m not sure. I never touched any kind of encoding options so I guess its default. Maybe I need to play around with encoding tonight but I don’t even know where to find that option.