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1. the milkman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I have just upgraded to v3.0 and all the accented characters in my posts and pages have been changed to codes making a nonsense of the entries, e.g.
   cafés to cafés
   São Pedro de Balsemão to São Pedro de Balsemão
   crème to crème
   Buçaco to Buçaco
   etc.

   Is there a fix for this or do I need to restore the backup and revert to 2.9?

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Check your wp-config.php DB_CHARSET and make sure it is the same value as before the upgrade. Meaning look at the 2.9.2 version of your wp-config.php file...

3. the milkman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   I upgraded from 2.9.1 and there was no DB_CHARSET in the old wp-config.php. I've also checked in all my old wp-config.php files since November 2008.

   What was the old default DB_CHARSET? It is currently set to utf8. What are the other options?

4. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hi,

   Try to comment out the DB_CHARSET line in wp-config.php

5. the milkman
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks, commenting out the DB_CHARSET line in wp-config.php works. But does it still mean there may be a problem in the future?

   Is there a way of converting the database to utf8 to avoid that possibility?

6. Matt B.
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   There should be no issue but if you're interested in converting your database to UTF-8, I wrote a walk-through a few years ago : http://www.skyminds.net/2008/04/14/wordpress-25-et-encodage-utf8/

   It's in French but you can have it translated via Google.

7. manuki
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   i have commented the -define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');- line in my wp-config.php but i still get the weird chars... like this ó instead of an o with an accent, can anyone help?

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