Title: Encoding problems
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Encoding problems

 *  [budtzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budtzy/)
 * (@budtzy)
 * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/)
 * Dear sir/madam
 * The Nordic characters turn wrong when I scrape them after updating the wordpress
   and the plug-in (3.4 now).
 * æ –> æ
    ø –> ø
 * [http://www.dfi-film.dk/the-absent-one](http://www.dfi-film.dk/the-absent-one)
 * Could you please help and let me know where I change the encoding settings?
 * Best regards, Anders
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-web-scrapper/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-web-scrapper/)

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 *  [sfsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfsolutions/)
 * (@sfsolutions)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785219)
 * Hi,
 * i have the same issue here.
 * any idea ?
 * Best wishes
 * Niels
 *  Plugin Author [Akshay Raje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akshay_raje/)
 * (@akshay_raje)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785240)
 * Just checked and it’s working fine for me.
 * Well, most of the times, the encoding issues are caused due to MySQL. At the 
   backend, WPWS uses something called the Transients API to cache stuff. In absence
   of any caching system (like Memcache or simple File based object cache for WP),
   Transients API uses MySQL to store the scraped information and that mostly causes
   such issues.
 * Try out object cache (file) in W3 Cache plugin. May be that solves this issue.
 *  [jrusi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrusi/)
 * (@jrusi)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785263)
 * I have the same problem. Whenever on the source website `$nbsp;`  appears I’m
   getting “” character in the output.
    Another issue is the charset encoding. 
   I use charset=”iso-8859-2″ but it doesn’t change the encoding.
 * I’ve tried to use the W3 chache object option, didn’t help.
 *  [kattouf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kattouf/)
 * (@kattouf)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785265)
 * I’m having encoding problems too.
 * scrapping the Greek Wikipedia results in gibberish…..
 *  Plugin Author [Akshay Raje](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akshay_raje/)
 * (@akshay_raje)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785268)
 * [@budtzy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/budtzy/), [@sfsolutions](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sfsolutions/),
   [@jrusi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jrusi/), [@kattouf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kattouf/),
   did you try sorting caching issues as mentioned in my reply above?
 *  [kattouf](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kattouf/)
 * (@kattouf)
 * [11 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785271)
 * I don’t understand the cache solution.
 * My site is in greek and everything works fine wth MySQL and Total Cache
    I use
   another scraper plugin and it pulls the greek text fine from Wikipedia but I 
   want to use your plugin.
 * sample:
 * Muay Thai (Thai: à ¸¡à ¸§à ¸¢à ¹„à ¸—à ¸¢, RTGS: Muai Thai,  [mÅ
   «aj.tʰāj] ( listen)) is a combat sport of Thailand that uses stand-up
   striking along with various clinching techniques.[1][2][3][4] This physical and
 * I will keep trying
 *  [l4m4](https://wordpress.org/support/users/l4m4/)
 * (@l4m4)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-problems-6/#post-5785323)
 * I have the same issue with pages including Wikipedia and WP Web Scraper. It doesn’t
   work with English language and other langueges too. For every single polish diacritic
   char (both upper and lower case) I get two strange upper case chars “” (not
   polish). Changing coding doesn’t help and W3 object cache doesn’t work too.

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