rileycentral
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Hi. I've seen a few posts about this but none of the solutions seem to work for me. I restored a backup via MySQL database and now these strange characters are throughout my blog. They appear to be where I have a double-space or an apostrophe. I have tried changing charset from the default UTF-8 but that only takes care of one problem to cause others. I have also done a search and replace of a few strings but that also did not solve the problem. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance. Oh, and here is an example:
http://www.damienriley.com/about-me/
Damien Riley
rileycentral
Member
Posted 2 years ago #
Solved the problem. I detected the charset automatically in Firefox through View>>>Encoding. I tried a few until one worked. This one worked:
iso-8859-1
I traded the default UTF-8 charset in settings>>>reading in WP-admin and voila! The annoying unwanted characters disappeared. If there are any known issues working with this charset please let me know.
Cliveloseby
Member
Posted 1 year ago #
Just wanted to say a massive thank you for posting this: it suddenly started happening, without any apparent reason in a 2.9.2 install.
All is now working,so thank yo!
Best wishes
Clive
Agreed. Immensely helpful. Switched hosting environments and all of a sudden had the strange marks. Thought it would involve a bunch of database changes. Relieved indeed!
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