Title: [Plugin: Duplicator] Problems with character encoding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: Duplicator] Problems with character encoding

 *  Resolved [TemoSayin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/temosayin/)
 * (@temosayin)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-duplicator-problems-with-character-encoding/)
 * I’ve noticed some problem with character encoding:
 * All values in the MySQL Dumb are empty. Iconv cleared all strings (strange). 
   If i removed the iconv in the functions.php it worked perfect.
    `//$row[$j] =
   iconv("UTF-8", "ISO-8859-1//TRANSLIT", $row[$j]);`
 * After installing special characters messed up(ö,ä,ü…):
    To fix this I’ve added
   in the installer template the following line of code right after the mysql_connect:`
   mysql_query("set names 'utf8'");`
 * Great Plugin!
 * Regards, Temo
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/duplicator/)

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 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [14 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-duplicator-problems-with-character-encoding/#post-2129429)
 * Hey thanks TemoSayin!!
 * I’ll add this as a todo. it will most likely be an option for the different storage
   types.
 *  [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * (@corylamleorg)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-duplicator-problems-with-character-encoding/#post-2129571)
 * Version 0.2.0 now has a check box on the options dialog to turn off the iconv
   setting. Just uncheck “Enable database character encoding” and the iconv function
   will be skipped.

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 * Last reply from: [Cory Lamle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/corylamleorg/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-duplicator-problems-with-character-encoding/#post-2129571)
 * Status: resolved