I set the forum up a couple of years ago as an information display area. It has been dormant until I found a need. There are no other users until I get it populated. So, don't know if it is singular issue.

I am aware of nonstandard character issues as I have encountered that in Joomla. The block of text I was copying was out of a Word doc. I converted it to PDF, same result. I moved it to plain text file, same result.

I changed font to Helvetica as I have no issues with that font in other apps.

Don't know if the post goes to the database. Manipulating MySQL is not in my skill set.

The cut&spate does work with my 7.5.9 forum install.