Title: Now wrong character encoding
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Now wrong character encoding

 *  [r_a_mueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r_a_mueller/)
 * (@r_a_mueller)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/)
 * Hi all,
    after upgrading I encountered a problem with character encoding. The
   language of the blog is german, and, you know, we have some umlauts in our language.
   I have (and had) set unicode-8 as encoding (UTF-8). But now my umlauts appear
   quite funny: umlaut a (ä) is A with tilde above plus circle with x umlaut ö (
   ö) is A with tilde plus paragraph-end sign umlaut u (ü) is A with tilde plus 
   1/4 sharp s (ß) is A with tilde plus Y with two dots above Trying the common 
   encodings (ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, windows-1252) had no acceptable result, there
   were other funny signs, but no real umlauts… Any hint? Richard

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/#post-788374)
 * What version did you upgrade from?
 *  Thread Starter [r_a_mueller](https://wordpress.org/support/users/r_a_mueller/)
 * (@r_a_mueller)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/#post-788387)
 * 2.3(.1?)
 *  [bottleneck](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bottleneck/)
 * (@bottleneck)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/#post-788412)
 * I had the same problem before. For some reason the mysql developers have
    latin1_swedish_ci
   as the default table type if none is specified or set in as the default table
   type. So my upgraded content got corrupted even in English.
 * Then I ran my database backup and eliminated all twisted things. Keep in mind
   that I have used the WordPress Database Plugin 2.1.5 ( playing with the phpMyAdmin’s
   backup didn’t help to clean that mess).
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/#post-788601)
 * If the blog was orginally created before version 2.2 you may need to delete the
   DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE line in wp-config.php as is explained in [Editing wp-config.php](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Database_character_set).

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 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/now-wrong-character-encoding/#post-788601)
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