Problem with editor cutting off text at apostrophes and quotations

[jwagner]

We have an installation of Vbulletin 4.2.1. It is connecting to MySQL 5.5. Magic quotes are turned of in PHP. The problem is whenever someone copies and pastes text from a Microsoft Word document. The default characters for apostrophe and quotation marks in Word (on all our client computers) do not appear to be the same as the apostrophe and quotation character set used in Vbulletin's CKEditor. Whenever a new forum post is created, the text will save and be cut off at the apostrophe or quotation mark. The interesting thing is if you go back to edit your post (which was cutoff) and repaste the original text, it now saves in its entirety.

I am at a loss which code, settings or templates I can check from here. I've tried changing the WYSIWYG editor to standard as well as other options in the Admin panel but it seems to have no effect. The default config.php had charset commented out. I tried uncommenting so it read utf8 but that had no effect so I commented it back out again. Any guidance on settings and code to check would be appreciated.