i am. the rest of the chinese site (posts and pages) displays perfectly.
but thanks very much for the question! it forced me to dig deeper.
seems when creating the wp_mlw_quotes entry the plugin declares it as “latin1_swedish_ci”. can’t explain why this happens.
changed it manually to “utf8_general_ci” like the rest and solved the problem.
by the way: my config.php defines:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);