GoLive CS2 doesn't seem to encode special characters - help!

Question

If you've recently upgraded to CS2 and are having trouble with HTML entities for special characters, see this FAQ topic:
FAQ 11.11 - Special Character Encoding Problems (CS2)
Looks like this is going to be a recurring topic for a while as people migrate to CS2, so I'm making this a "sticky" topic at the top of the forum (thanks Martin).

Answer 1

Thank you all for your posts on this issue. I need to point out a few things.
1. As a novice, I had assumed that "special characters" included all non-standard characters (those not included in the Basic Latin character set and the Latin-1 Supplement set), and that therefore, all the "other" Unicode characters were special characters. As a result, I had assumed that the original post about Special Characters did indeed have a connection to Unicode input methods. (In fact, I am utterly in the dark as to why it is that it does not. But being a novice I believe you when you say that "special characters" and Unicode characters are two unrelated things, although I have no idea what the difference is. But, for letting me know that there is a difference, for that I truly thank you.
2. I have read and re-read my comments from earlier and fail to see any "flaming" in it of Nate. Yet the rest of you see it clearly, so it must be there. It must be very disappointing for you to try so hard to help others only to be confronted with someone of ill-manners blasting you for your best efforts. I am truly sorry that I have in my ignorance and in my own frustration caused you to feel this way. Furthermore, since his statements had nothing to do with the issue that is so vexing to me (as you have now shown me), it was completely inappropriate for me to be upset with his answers.
3. I remain very frustrated with not being able to find an answer to this problem of Unicode entry. I share Dee Bolland's aggravation when he talked about "... patronising people saying 'Didn't you know that?' blah blah." and when he said, " Please don't say 'It works for me!' :< ." When I first read Nate's statement of what to do about special characters, my spirits were excited with hope that it would solve my Unicode issues (because I thought he was talking about that). I was hopeful that I had missed something simple. When I tried it and it didn't work for my problem, I was very disappointed. This is the same frustration that I had when I read Rob Keniger's statement to me that the program can accept input in Source view. I jumped at this with hopeful anticipation, only to be totally and utterly disappointed once again--because it doesn't work for me. I pasted the Unicode text that I had posted above ( ×ֲש×ֶר ×Ö¹× ×Ö¸×Ö·×Ö° ×ַּעֲצַת רְש×ָעִ×× ) into source view, and all I got was the following: "
  " (I've included the tags so you can see the space). In other words, once again my high hopes are dashed and I am left feeling stupid (you say it works for you) and angry such a great program that does so many fantastic things can't do the basic things I want it to do. So, yes, I remain infuriated by the situation, by my inability to get the program to do what (I thought) you all had said it can so easily do. And yet (as I stated earlier in my post to Nate at which he took offense): "I do hope I am missing something simple and that the error is totally mine. However, I have yet to see any directions or examples that will solve the problem. Please, if you know of how to make this work, let me know. I will gladly confess my error in doubting you, if you can show me I am wrong by doing it right."
So, since my post was not germane to the discussion, I will now bow out of this one. Thank you so much for your efforts to help, though.