Character Coding Problem in Chrome and IE

  • cyberquill

    (@cyberquill)


    13 years, 2 months ago

    This problem occurs mainly in posts published before the end of December 2009. It does not occur in posts published after December 2009, or at least so I thought, until my latest post published two days ago.

    The problem is that in my earlier posts, such as this one, when viewed in Chrome or IE, one sees strange symbols in place of apostrophes, quotation marks, and the like, as shown in this screenshot.

    Particularly annoying are those weird capital letter A’s with the little hat on, most clearly seen in this post when viewed in Chrome or IE—see this screenshot—because these A’s don’t even represent anything (such as apostrophes), but they just appear after every few words for no obvious reason at all.

    Like I said, I thought the problem had gone away, but in my latest post from two days ago, the word pâté renders like this (Screenshot) in Chrome and IE.

    I posted this question before, and was told to comment out the following lines in config.php: 

    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    That solved the problem in Chrome, but now different strange characters appeared in Firefox, so I reversed the commenting out of these lines.

    Is there a way to fix this?

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  • Thread Starter cyberquill

    (@cyberquill)

    13 years, 1 month ago

    Alright, the trick to write “pâté so it renders properly on the page is to use HTML codes:

    p & #226 ; t & # 233 ; (minus the spaces)

    While special characters (â, é, ö, ü, ß, etc.) render properly in Edit Post, they don’t render properly on the webpage unless I use the HTML codes.

    Also, I noticed that replacing slanted apostrophes and quotations marks in Edit Post with straight/vertical ones (‘ and “) gets rid of some of the weird characters on the page.

    No idea what’s up with the capital letters A with the hat on, which all my posts prior to 2010 are infested with.

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