By default the JCK Editor is set to use Html Entities, this done because these entities makes data safe for outputting into an HTML document. An HTML entity is a special character string that is translated by an HTML parser into a single character or symbol. All entities begin with the & (ampersand) and end with a ; (semi-colon).

Fonts should support rendering of all of the ASCII range from 0 - 127 in a similar fashion (except specialty symbol fonts), but above that range the symbols used may not be reliably consistent from font to font. The use of entities is one method to try to maintain consistency of rendering character glyphs.

Disabling the Processing of HTML Entities

To do this please login to the backend of your site and visit ‘Extensions’ (which is in the top navigation menu) and navigate down to the ‘Plug-in Manager’ menu item. In the Plug-in Manager use the ‘Filter’ to locate the 'JoomlaCK' plug-in and then click on the 'Plugin Name' to edit and open up into a screen-called ‘Plugin: [Edit]’. On the right hand-side you will notice a list of parameters. Navigate down to 'Advanced Parameters' and and disable the 'Process HTML Entities'.

Lastly click on 'Save' to save the new settings - job done!