I just upgraded to WP 2.5 from the latest previous version and all Slovene characters in my posts are now strange letters even though I used the same UTF-8 setting before.
I tried editing the last post with š č and ž and it still does not work. In the editor I see correct letters, but they do not show on the page. They are displayed differently than those from before however. You can see the difference between the last post with ? instead of š and č and all previous posts have characters like these: Ä
http://www.ojster.com
What could be wrong? I have the same UTF-8 setting as before and I never had any problems with previous upgrades...
Thanks!
This problem has to do with the way that some people's databases are setup. Something to do with a character set mismatch.
Try changing this line in your wp-config.php file:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
To this:
//define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
That just comments it out. That has fixed the issue for some people.
Great!
Thanks! It solved the problem.
slakethirst
Member
Posted 11 months ago #
Brilliant! Everything was dandy with my blog until I upgraded to 2.6 this evening, upon which my curaçaos and cafés, mères and gemütlichs grew garbled, UTF-8 notwithstanding. Commenting out the charset line in my wp-config straightened everything out nicely. An unexpected solution, to be sure, but whatever works.
Tom Aarons
Member
Posted 10 months ago #
Thank you. Thank you so much. I'm still using 2.5.1 and I've been gnashing my teeth trying to get Khmer characters to save as khmer characters rather than a string of question marks. This seems to have done it. Love you Otto42!
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