I typed this 30 minutes ago... but due to one wrong click I lost everything and need to retype it... This is so annoying...

To make the long story short.

1. I was confused with the manual for Joom!Fish 1.7 installation. Perhaps the manual I use was not the correct one for Joom!Fish 1.7 installation but that was the latest documentation that I could find. It was stated:

1.Install component (Mambelfish_for_Joomla10x.zip) ? IGNORE any messages about installing a patch they are not needed
2.Install initialisation bot (bot_mbf_language_system.zip - remember to publish !!!)
3.Install language switching module (mbf_module.zip - remember to publish the module)
4.Install search bot (mbf_searchbot.zip - remember to publish the mambot)
5.If you haven't done so already setup the languages you want for your site via the Joomla Language Manager.
6.Setup languages for the fish
7.Note that there is no need to change domit libs any more
8.Install additional contentElement files as required

See forum message http://forum.joomla.org/index.php/topic,26271.0.html for links to the required files.

but actually I do need to do step 2,3 and 4 as it was done in the one time installation. So wasted 45 minutes searching for something that I do not need. People who are frustrated don't usually see things clearly. I was complaining that I cannot get Joom!Fish to work because I fail to download the files needed. My husband helped me and pointed out that Joom!Fish is actually working and my problem was I did not select the content category for translation !!!! So soo sooooo but at least it was working.

View of my stupid mistake.

2. The translation from the admin interface displayed well in the web page. I was translating from english to simplified chinese. Problem happened after I edited the translated content from the user's interface. The translated content appeared as garbage in the admin interface after being edited in the user's interface.

Translated text appears as garbage:

I realised the problem was due to the admin's interface default coding is ISO-8859-1 but the user's interface for translation is UTF-8.

So what I did to solve the problem was to edit joomla_dir/language/english.php
and changed

DEFINE('_ISO','charset=iso-8859-1');

to

DEFINE('_ISO','charset=utf-8');

and tada.... my translation appears correctly in the admin page :D

After editing english.php:

Now is time for bed... good nite.