Title: link name encoding
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# link name encoding

 *  Resolved [iheartwine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iheartwine/)
 * (@iheartwine)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-name-encoding/)
 * When I fetch link details, the title sometimes looks terrible. Is there any option
   to force the script to convert everything to utf8?
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-links/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/buddypress-links/)

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 *  [martin.kreativermoment](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinkreativermoment/)
 * (@martinkreativermoment)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-name-encoding/#post-4353100)
 * I really need this too. all special characters are destroyed
 * Kürşat Gößling
 * ü = ü
 * öß = öß

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [links](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/links/)
 * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)

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 * Last reply from: [martin.kreativermoment](https://wordpress.org/support/users/martinkreativermoment/)
 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/link-name-encoding/#post-4353100)
 * Status: resolved