Getting Joomla 1.0.13 and JoomFish to work in Japanese

I forget how I installed JoomFish, nor did I document the process, but it’s working. The two problems I encountered were:

1. Japanese translated text that I inputted was displaying properly, but when I viewed the source of the page I could see that it was actually encoded in escape characters, like #1234#4758#2847.
2. Every single, goddamn time I entered a new translation via the administrator interface, the administrator session would be lost and I’d have to log back in again.

Here’s the solution to the first problem:

http://www.joomfish.net/how-to-…/joom-fish-encodings-and-utf-8.html

Namely, to set the charset meta tag in the HTML header.

The second problem was caused by a bugfix in version 1.0.13 apparently causing some problems with backwards compatibility. I found the solution in this thread:

http://joomlacode.org/gf/project/joomfish/forum/?action=ForumBrowse&forum_id=755&_forum_action=ForumMessageBrowse&thread_id=6282

In that forum thread there’s a link to a new administrator/index2.php file to replace the broken one in the core.