Title: Front-end Latin Encoding issue
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Front-end Latin Encoding issue

 *  Resolved [H.Noll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hnoll/)
 * (@hnoll)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-latin-encoding-issue/)
 * Hi there, i got an issue with latin extended characters.
    It is happens when 
   editing membership level. Description and confirmation fields doesn’t save latin
   characters like “ĄĘÓŹ”. Those characters are displayed on my site as a “??”. 
   Where can i change encoding to UTF-8 or use a different charset? Cheers Herbert
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 *  Thread Starter [H.Noll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hnoll/)
 * (@hnoll)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-latin-encoding-issue/#post-4325898)
 * is there anybody out there?
 *  Plugin Author [Jason Coleman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangerstudios/)
 * (@strangerstudios)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-latin-encoding-issue/#post-4325928)
 * H.Noll. Sorry this is happening on your site.
 * I believe older versions of PMPro accidentally set specific charactersets (Latin1
   probably) when it created the tables. If you remove the character sets on the
   columns and make sure the table itself is using the utf8_general_ci or similar
   character set, then you should be good.
 * Here is the SQL to remove the charset on the text fields in wp_pmpro_membership_levels
   and change the charset of the whole table to utf8_general_ci. You could also 
   make these updates through a tool like phpMyAdmin.
 * [https://gist.github.com/strangerstudios/7585404](https://gist.github.com/strangerstudios/7585404)
 * Update: The forums here were choking on the backticks in the SQL queries, so 
   I moved this to a gist. Also I am not sure you would be able to put special characters
   in the membership level name depending on how the gateway will handle them/etc.
   Give it a shot, but definitely test and possibly remove the special characters
   from the level name if you notice any issues.
 * Thanks!
 *  Thread Starter [H.Noll](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hnoll/)
 * (@hnoll)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/front-end-latin-encoding-issue/#post-4325958)
 * Alright then, thanks for Your reply.
    I solve this issue thanks to WPML

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