English Phonetic Symbols Couldn't Be Displayed in WordPress 3.1

I have the same problem I upgraded recently. They worked fine previously and continue to do so. It’s just the new phonetic words added since the upgrade.

I worked on a local copy on my local machine and managed to get phonetic symbols to show if I insert and save them in the visual editor of companion and save it.

But if I try it in the html area which is the area I prefer to work in it loses the characters and replaces them with question marks.

Strangely it won’t work on the live web version though.

Initially I suspected that MySQL was not saving posts in UTF-8 but it was.

I also suspected Snow Leopard on my Mac which has also been giving me grief with phonetic fonts on my Scottish Words calendar. But that was down to conflicting specialist Phonetic typefaces installed.

I think it must might be down to Theme Companion – help Frumph.