Try forcing it to 8859-1

That doesn't seem to be an option in my IE.

OK, this is a test of alt-0223: "ß"
Which just showed up in the edit window as a proper double S character.

But which just changed into a tilde'd A and an umlaut'ed Y when I pressed the continue button.

edit: and remained as the A and Y when posted.

edit2: but if I "view source," it shows up as a proper double S character.

-jk