Title: special characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# special characters

 *  [crisjb](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crisjb/)
 * (@crisjb)
 * [19 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-2/)
 * I noticed that either wordpress or php don’t allow for special characters such
   as the copyright symbol in the code. I want to use spanish language characters
   and accents and it does not permit me to print it out in the browser. I have 
   the blog options set to charset UTF-8. What could be causing this? I would like
   to use my wordpress blog in spanish. Thanks.

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 *  [Steph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steph/)
 * (@steph)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-2/#post-526994)
 * Maybe the encoding set for your database is not utf-8 (encoding can go wrong 
   in many, many places).
 * See if [http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/18/converting-mysql-database-contents-to-utf-8/](http://climbtothestars.org/archives/2004/07/18/converting-mysql-database-contents-to-utf-8/)
   helps.
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-2/#post-526995)
 * Just to clarify: do you have issues with Spanish characters in your content (
   posts, Pages, comments) or in the template files when you edit them?
 * If the problem occurs in the files – put the guilt on your editor. It should 
   save the files after editing with utf-8 encoding!
 *  [hotbelgo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hotbelgo/)
 * (@hotbelgo)
 * [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-2/#post-527049)
 * I think I have a similar problem. If I use the command line to inspect my mysql
   database then I can properly read the various special characters (€ etc.). But
   a € ends up as € in the browser reading the blog entries. However, it also 
   comes up like that in phpMyAdmin too.
 * Nonetheless, the source code of the page reads
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type”
   content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
 * Any ideas?
 * HB

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 * [spanish](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/spanish/)
 * [special](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/special/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-2/#post-527049)
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