Title: Mysql double byte problems
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Mysql double byte problems

 *  [Uberche](https://wordpress.org/support/users/uberche/)
 * (@uberche)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-double-byte-problems/)
 * I just changed servers from a managed server to a VPS and it is all seeming to
   work ok except durign the transfer over I lost my ability to use double byte 
   characters, the site is teaching Chinese students English online so double byte
   is definitely needed.
 * All my Chinese writing has turned into symbols and not sure why it happened, 
   guessing it’s a database error but thought I’d just see if anyone here knows 
   what hte problem might be. You can see the problem clearly on the page below.
 * [http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com/2010/10/death-of-a-pumpkin/](http://www.ethansenglishcafe.com/2010/10/death-of-a-pumpkin/)
 * My database collation was in latin1.bin and I changed it to utf8_general_ci but
   I understand that is just how things are ordered so it obviously did not help.
   What is controlling how my characters are actually being displayed here?

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/mysql-double-byte-problems/)
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