simone

I’ve done something like this, i’ve used as “muse” the code from imagesafari.com, made some big changes.
No pbroblem to contribute it to you, but it is somehow hardwired in to my blog and making it available would not me such of use.
are there docs that explain how to code plugins for WP? then I could transform it from the form it is now to something more useful for everyone.

you need to install phpmyadmin on your host. a PHP program designed to access in an easy way mysql databases.

I have a similar problem with comments on my blog . they are in italian and they use characters with accents like àèìòù.
well, if I add a post from the public area of the blog, they get encoded not the right way which is & egrave ; and so on, but they get encoded as error chars like if they were encoded from another charset into ASCII, just like the example you show above.
But, if I add a comment from within the admin area, they get encoded correctly.