Really weird characters in posts?

  • AshleyxCore

    (@ashleyxcore)


    21 years, 2 months ago

    Ugh, every time I post something with a little heart like this: <3
    Or an apostrophe it makes my post all weird, and fills in the words with weird characters.

    For example, “Valentine’s” comes out looking like this: “Valentine’s”

    Any idea what this is? I have re-posted FIVE times, logged out and back in again, and I’m seriously frustrated. This is not the first time wordpress has done this to me.

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  • Sushubh

    (@sushubh)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    did you write that post in MS Word or any other funky word-processor? any markup plugins applied?

    Thread Starter AshleyxCore

    (@ashleyxcore)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    I typed it right in the wordpress post box, as I always do :\

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    21 years, 2 months ago

    My guess: your browser (Internet Explorer? I thought so) is not detecting the character set for your page, utf-8, and is defaulting to ISO-8859-1 (Latin-1 or Western).

    To keep everyone from having to set this manually in the browser, make sure the following is in the <head> portion of your page template:

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo("charset"); ?>" />

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