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You need to use HTML codes, you can look them up here
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I.e. for Æ you type Æ and it converts to the correct character.
EDIT:
Weirdly enough, even though I escaped that 2nd Æ, it showed the character instead of the code. Anyway, this is the code, but just remove the spaces:
& # 1 9 8 ;
Also see Administrivia.Text Formatting Rules.
EDIT EDIT:
Wait, on 2nd though I probably misinterpreted your question... it was not about how to encode special characters, but about that special characters already correctly encoded on the page, go haywire after you edit a page, right?
First, when you edit a page do you copy-paste the text into a text editor or word processor? It could be that that has its auto-correct or spelling feature on, which in this case wreaks havoc.
Or do you have any auto-correction or automatic spelling correction features on in your browser? Or browser extensions / plug-ins that replace text?
Those probably are the most likely causes for this.
Also, the character's fixed on that page now :-)
Edited by LB7979I had this issue on Æon Flux. Using the "[=" on the character code prevents the software from treating it as a wikiword.

Sometimes when I go to edit a page, if a word has a special accented character on it (like é or ü), the character is gone after I save the page, leaving only the special code behind. This happened to me when adding an example to BreadEggsBreadedEggs.Video Games, where the "AE" ligature (Æ) in Æsir was removed, and I don't know how to fix it.
Edited by WillyFourEyes