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1. xauser-wp
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   hi all,
   on doing an rss import with wp2.0.3 which is encoded with
   ISO-8859-1 and contains "special characters" (umlaute) all these
   characters get lost cause wordpress tries to interpret them
   as UTF-8. Any solution for this situation out there?

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Change WP's default encoding from utf-8 to whatever you have in the imported stuff.
   admin > Options > Reading.

3. xauser-wp
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   thx! this is a start!
   is there any chance for a detection and conversion during rss-import? Cause when umlauts are entered while wp is in UTF-8 mode, then a rss-ISO-8859-1-import is done and I change admin > Options > Reading to ISO-8859-1, the umlauts of import are correct but all previous umlauts get corrupt. Thanks in advance!

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   I am afraid there is solution for it.
   If you try to "blend" content with two different encoding... you'll always end up with something screwed up: either the old one or the new one.
   I thought it was an empty WP install, that's why I suggested changing the encoding.

   Maybe a find and replace in the file before importing? I have no idea... sorry.

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