I have an issue that apparently cropped up back in the summer and was recently noticed. When saving a article with code pasted in JCE Pro (latest version but also several previous versions) is adding in a weird character of: Â which is added before every   and is visible to visitors and fills an article with junk. I prefer to use JCE Pro over TinyMCE but can't because of the junk it is adding.

TinyMCE has no issues with the code.

Here is an example code.
Original code:
<td valign="bottom"><p>Liontamer-Pazzazz Rothrock Tradition By Buddakan  </p></td>

Code when TinyMCE saves it:
<td valign="bottom">
<p>Liontamer-Pazzazz Rothrock Tradition By Buddakan </p>
</td>

Code when JCE Pro saves it:
<td valign="bottom">
<p>Liontamer-Pazzazz Rothrock Tradition By Buddakan </p>
</td>

Appreciate the response.

I have an admin tools pro subscription so on your suggestion I ran the Change Database Collation to set it to UTF-8 Multibyte (recommended) which shows in the phpmyadmin as utf8mb4_general_ci collation (UCA 4.0.0, case insensitive). Then ran the suggested repair and optimize after.

I still get it on Docman. Specifically the docman_documents table field named description which is the description field of the document and uses the editor. This field also has the same collation as above and is a type of longtext.

Is there something I can turn off to prevent the update and the characters?

Thanks.

There is one category area of docman ( https://chowclub.org/ccci/breed-information/breed-statistics/2022-breed-standings) that is still doing the issue and is a docman breed statistics category, but everywhere else I checked is good so running the collation fix must have worked in most places. I'll just have to look deeper into what the issue is there.

I know they are trailing spaces and to get the data formatted I take the Word file given, put it in Dreamweaver, run Dreamweaver's fix Word file on it then copy paste the code into the description section and save the document. This is the same process that I use for most other articles as most are submitted by the club in Word or pdf to me to put on the website.

I also have this issue with the docman docman_documents table description field and JCE. I've also switched the encoding from utf8_general_ci to utf8mb4_unicode_ci. In Joomla 4.2.9 JCE Pro 2.9.36 and Docman 4.

// double space anywhere
<p>testing  testing</p>

// after save is
<p>testing  testing</p>