I've encountered this problem as well in Japanese and it is infuriating. One thing you could do is to export your posts by day, instead. If you export by day, the tags are saved correctly in UTF-8.
This is bizarre. Both objects use the exact same rendering code. I don't know how this could be happening. Argh.
BTW, I can't search in Japanese either from IE 6.0 (I don't know about the other browsers). When will that be fixed?
The backend for searching is horrible. I hope to have it replaced soon.
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