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1. DaveMcK
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Lots of trouble migrating to a new host - particularly with moving the database. Lots of gremlins appear in the imported version (borked apostrophes, quotes etc), all to do with utf-8 reading Latin1 entries. There appear to be some complex solutions to do with configuring the dumps/imports correctly, but the easy thing that works seems to be to edit the wp-config.php file and change

   define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
   to
   define('DB_CHARSET', 'latin1');

   It definitely works - but could it cause problems? If so, what of problems?

   Thanks in advance.

2. DaveMcK
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   So it's perfectly alright to do this?

3. shoshanna
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   We're having a similar situation: it's inconvenient to convert the database to utf8 because of the way we have it set up, and it's much easier to just change the charset in wp-config.php to latin1 instead.

   Is this safe to do?

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