Title: encoding problem &#8211; accents won&#8217;t work
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# encoding problem – accents won’t work

 *  Resolved [flofluse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flofluse/)
 * (@flofluse)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-accents-wont-work/)
 * Hi people,
 * somehow the accents (in catalan and spanish) doesn’t appear properly. I already
   checked my theme files and they’re all encoded in utf-8.the Backend wp Option
   are set as well to encode in utf-8.
 * what did i miss?
 * My site is in: [http://www.dcc-artivisme.net/wordpress_dcc](http://www.dcc-artivisme.net/wordpress_dcc)
 * i post you the header of the first page as well:
 * `\`
    <?php /* Template Name: Home */ ?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML
   1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"
   > <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" <?php language_attributes(); ?>>
 * <head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="<?php bloginfo('html_type');?
   >; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" /> <meta name="description" content
   ="DCC - Desarollo Cultural Comunitario y artivismo segun Txus Pedrosa." /> <meta
   name="keywords" content="dcc, desarollo,desenvolupament, cultural, comunitari,
   comunitario, comunitat,comunidad, Txus Pedrosa" /> <meta name="generator" content
   ="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version')?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats --> <meta
   name="robots" content="all" />
 *  <title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
 *  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url');?
   >" media="all" />
    <!--[if lte IE 7]> <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('
   template_directory'); ?>/style-ie7.css" type="text/css" media="projection, screen"/
   > <![endif]--> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0"
   href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" /> <link rel="alternate" type="text/xml"
   title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" /> <link rel="alternate"
   type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url');?
   >" />
 * <!-- NO !! WordPress API Action Hook -->
    </head>
 * <body>
 * `
 * …thank you very much for your help
    flo

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 *  Thread Starter [flofluse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flofluse/)
 * (@flofluse)
 * [18 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problem-accents-wont-work/#post-667084)
 * Well i resolved it myself. It was a stupid error.
    When i uploaded the database
   from my localhost-db to the server-db all my accents got fucked. Arghh
 * Well, i guess i have some work to do…

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