3: Add <meta content="text/html;charset=UTF-8" http-equiv="Content-Type"/> so that the browser knows it's UTF-8
4: How does the translate code look? I think you either have to have \n spacing or use something like:
PHP Code:
echo $translator->_("My first line.") . $translator->_("My second line.") . "\n" . $translator->_("My first line in new paragraph...");