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1. obsto
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Dear all, I changed the WordPress Option "Encoding for pages and feeds" from UTF to ISO-8859-1 and back (1.5). Now every German Umlaut in an old post is displayed as question mark "?". Look for instance at: http://medinfo.netbib.de/archives/2005/04/20/458/
   New postings are displayed correctly. What have I done with this simple option changed forward/backward and what to do now? Thanks! Oliver

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   1. What have I done with this simple option changed forward/backward
   - You changed the encoding :)
   Anything written with a different character encoding shows up with strange characters in page with another encoding.
   2. Try this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic.php?id=20807
   And stop switching encoding.

3. obsto
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   And stop switching encoding :-(
   Anything written with a different character encoding shows up with strange characters in page with another encoding.
   Yes, of course - I know. But I switched back almost immediately and still all postings before the double switch cripple the German Umlaute. E.g. my WordPress option is UTF-8 but 400 postings done in UTF-8 still show question marks instead of Umlaute. Would be lovely if somebody could confirm that this is definitely not a WordPress problem (but maybe the Apache Server?).

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   I have used the method described in the thread linked above after I imported a Greymatter blog to WP. GM posts were all in iso-8859-2. Now they are OK in utf-8 after applying to conversion.

5. elerhc
   Member
   Posted 6 years ago #

   my utf characters are broken, and i didnt switch anything. everything is set up properly. there is a unicode bug in wordpress probably

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