Posted 2 years ago #
I upgraded to WP 2.2 today. I'm using a theme called Nonzero by nodethirtythree, whose site seems to be down at the moment. The site is located at brucewinick.com. I noticed some strangeness in the fonts today, and am unsure how to fix this. I see same strange symbols in firefox browser as well as IE 7.
I'm hoping someone will recognize this and be able to help me fix it -- hopefully without having to change the theme, though perhaps something in the theme needs to be updated... Please help.
Posted 2 years ago #
oh, seems certain symbols like hyphens or dashes, and apostrophes are most affected...
Posted 2 years ago #
Seems the problem has more to do with the editor included with WP. Would that be the tinyMCE editor? Another thing I noticed as I was fixing things that re-editing posts and pages strips the paragraphing - a very undesirable thing to happen. I've searched a few threads, but don't see anything very recent than from 6 months ago, and the suggestion to try other editor plugins. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated.
seems certain symbols like hyphens or dashes, and apostrophes are most affected...
First question this makes me ask is if you're not writing the posts inside WordPress. Are you (or someone else) writing the posts in something like Microsoft Word or WordPad, then copy/pasting them into the WordPress area to publish? This is the most common reason for these weird characters. You should never do that.
Seems the problem has more to do with the editor included with WP. Would that be the tinyMCE editor?
That would depend on whether or not you're using the TinyMCE editor. The TinyMCE editor is the WYSIWYG editor (Visual Rich Editor). If you're not using it, but the regular quicktags that WordPress provides, then no, you're not using the TinyMCE.
I was fixing things that re-editing posts and pages strips the paragraphing
How are you "fixing" them? Are you editing the code yourself with the VRE (and using the "code" button)? Did you turn off the VRE and just doing it in the plain editor? If it's the latter, before you upgraded, did you ever edit your default-filters.php file? And upgrade would overwrite any edits you made previously.
Posted 2 years ago #
Try going to your wp-config.php file and deleting these two lines:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');
I had the same problem (it's fixed now) and I believe it is because of upgrading from pre 2.0 versions to 2.2 through Fantastico.
More information is here.
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