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1. addcoach
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   I restored an ancient version of wordpress 1.52 backup via MySQL database to WP 3.0 and now these strange characters are throughout my blog in place of the apostrophe's ’ and in place of double quotes I get these
   “ and ”

   Following one thread's advice, I've tried changing charset from the default UTF-8 to ISO-8859-1 in reading-encoding for pages and feeds but this doesn't work, just gets new weird characters

   Following another one's advice, I've tried modifying the config.php to

   Commenting these out like this:
   //define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   //define('DB_COLLATE', '');

   and neither works.

   Any ideas?

2. addcoach
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   any suggestions? wild guesses?

3. Vijay Padiyar
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #
   

   If the issue is seen in blog/post titles, the best way to fix this is to do what WordPress itself does.

   Use the following code to get the blog title, instead of using just get_option(‘blogname’) or get_bloginfo(‘name’):

   wp_specialchars_decode(get_option(‘blogname’), ENT_QUOTES);

   This will ensure that the apostrophe special characters are reconverted back to the apostrophe before being displayed.

   Regards

   Vijay Padiyar

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