Title: Character encoding problem
Last modified: August 20, 2016
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# Character encoding problem
* Resolved [JJF4U](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjf4u/)
* (@jjf4u)
* [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problem-2/)
* Hi;
I got wrong characters display on my wordpress installation (both on back
and front-end), but it only occurs on Opera 12, Internet Explorer 7 & 8 (just
on special characters) and on Safari 5 (where it’s impossible to read anything
except few menus and titles in navbars which display totally correctly, including
special characters; while administration’s working well except special characters).
Firefox 14 and Google Chrome 22 display everything correctly, I didn’t try on
other browsers/versions.
* The big deal is I intended a lot of tricks explained on the web like on this
[page](http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-convert-character-set-and-collation-of-wordpress-database/)
using a php script called “convert_to_utf8_sql_generator” which worked perfectly
with just an error on wp_postmeta table.
* My wp-config.php displays correctly
**define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); define(‘
DB_COLLATE’, ”);
* When I display source code on a web browser (this is HTML5), I get
** in the
header. Every tables and the database itself are set in utf8_general_ci. I tried
to backup, delete and re-import the database after these modifications, using
utf8 as charset and both ANSI/NONE as SQL compatibility mode. Nothing better.
I tried to create a new post after all of that; same errors.
* Forgot to tell that I’m working on my computer localhost, using **WAMP server
2.0** (but every other wordpress websites on my localhost doesn’t have this kind
of error).
* Please, have you got any idea, any trail? Maye it’s related to the use of HTML5?
Maybe it’s about my template?
Thanks a lot dudes!
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* Thread Starter [JJF4U](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjf4u/)
* (@jjf4u)
* [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problem-2/#post-3089224)
* Ok, I update my posts ’cause I found what it seems to be the cause of troubles.
* I deleted what I customized in my child-theme style.css, and whow I don’t understand
why, using back the whole parent-theme style.css there is no more character problem
in front-end (but there still remains errors with special characters in back-
end).
It should be some error in my customized CSS… I’ll check it out, even
if I don’t understand why it’s causing such problems with html characters.
* See ya,
* Thread Starter [JJF4U](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjf4u/)
* (@jjf4u)
* [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problem-2/#post-3089225)
* HAHAHAHA I finally resolved it!
Nothing mattered with charset, utf-8, mysql
and so on…! I tried to remove one section after another in my child-theme style.
css to find the part containing an error; it was the part concerning body{font-
family}, which was trying to use “Helvetica Neue”, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif
without font-face spec.
* I deleted the “Helvetica Neue” value, it works now perfectly.
* YEAH
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* [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)
* [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)
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* Last reply from: [JJF4U](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jjf4u/)
* Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problem-2/#post-3089225)
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