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1. poodlerat
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   When I try to type certain accented characters, as well as in other alphabets like arabic, WordPress converts them to question marks. The ISO-8859-1 characters like é still show up fine, but any characters outside of those, like Č, become ?.

   My database is set to MySQL charset: UTF-8 Unicode, and MySQL connection collation: utf-8_unicode_ci. Is it a database problem or something else? And how do I fix it?

2. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   You have a wordpress.com blog in your profile - so you should ask for help there.

3. poodlerat
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   The blog I'm talking about isn't a WP.com blog, it's one I host myself.

4. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Is it a new install or an upgrade to 2.2?
   Did it ever worked correctly?

   What is the encoding setting in your admin > Options > Reading?

5. poodlerat
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   This particular blog is a new install of 2.2, but I've the exact same problem on other blogs updated from various previous versions. I don't type in other languages very often, so I can't remember how far back it started, although before 2.2 if I'm remembering correctly.

   The encoding is set to UTF-8 on all my blogs; I've never changed it from the default.

6. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Where upgrade - read this:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress#Special_note_for_Fantastico_Upgrades

   Although it may apply to your new install, too.

7. poodlerat
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It worked---I'm so grateful for such quick help! It never occurred to me that Fantastico might be the problem (although in hindsight, it probably should have.)

   Thanks again for your help.

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