Ice said:It is taking a great deal of effort to type this.
But for all those people who might end up searching for an answer one day, like I did, my solution was going to the view menu, then encoding, and selecting "Unicode UTF 8"
I remembered checking there when it was backwards and it was set to western or some crap like that, but now its Unicode UTF 8 and its fixed.
I answered my own question, so sue me...