Upgrading to 2.5.1 messed the character encoding

  • Resolved graciefer

    (@graciefer)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    I write in spanish, and use characters such as áéíóú and ñ. I just updated to the latest version (2.5.1) and now all these characters in all the site are replaced by funny symbols such as Ã, á, and so on. The charset of the blog has always been utf-8, and used to work just fine. I corrected the last post replacing the symbols for the correct characters and it’s properly displayed now. I tied with different charsets and it just gets messier.

    Is there’s any way to correct the rest of the blog without having to replace the characters one by one?

    (the backup also has those strange characters :/)

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  • pdavisnwa

    (@pdavisnwa)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    In your wp-config file you will find the following line:

    define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

    Comment it out or remove it. This caused me considerable grief when I upgraded a couple of weeks ago. There is a conflict between the way your MySQL database is setup and the above line in the config file.

    What I went through figuring it out is detailed here:

    http://reproachofmen.org/blog/?p=102

    I pray this helps.

    Thread Starter graciefer

    (@graciefer)

    15 years, 11 months ago

    it helped! thaks a lot 🙂

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