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1. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I got a comment in French today (last comment on my site if you look in the sidebar at recent comments) and even though I've been in to edit it and re-written it myself, I can't get it to post with the usual accents in place. I don't recall having this problem before.
   The only things I have changed are that I implemented a few anti-spam measure like the comment preview plugin and kitten's spam delete on Friday after getting rather a lot of comments' spam.
   Does anyone know where this problem could be coming from?
   http://www.petiteanglaise.com

2. midori
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Coding ... if you use utf-8, it sure won't work. And textile plugins seemed to create a real mess in my blog (french, iso encoded...)

3. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   My host server is also having problems right now so frustratingly I can't even sort this out.
   Without being able to get onto wordpress admin, can you remind me where the settings are accessed for utf-8 etc?
   My settings haven't been altered though, and it has worked up until now. All I can think is that the Laughing Lizard preview feature has caused a problem.
   I'm going to try uninstalling it just as soon as I can get online.

4. midori
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Err... somewhere into the options (reading ? I think...), and same for my webhost, so I can not check, sorry T_T
   Try iso-8859-1 ? I can not promise it will work.
   I suppose you did try & eacute; for é, & agrave; for à, ... (without spaces after the & ) first ?

5. moshu
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   petite anglaise,
   If everything was written till now in utf-8, and you are going to change the encoding, then everything will get like that one comment now :)
   Yes, the possibility to change the encoding is in Options > Reading.
   Actually a "preview" might cause this, since it can "override" the settings... I guess.

6. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   midori
   you wouldn't be hosted by amen by any chance?!!
   grrrrr

7. midori
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   O_o ?? Me ? No, Swiss hosting, infomaniak. But it looks more like a global dns problem, many friends having the same problems with various hosts, and various access providers...

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