Title: Special characters encoding issue, like "å"
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Special characters encoding issue, like "å"

 *  Resolved [The Generation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegeneration/)
 * (@thegeneration)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/)
 * Hello,
 * A problem occurs when inserting special characters in the date clock note/information
   field and when it’s time to display the note/information text on the front-end
   page the string renders like this e.g: “Testar u00c3u00a5, u00c3u00a4 och u00c3u00b6”
   the correct format is: “Testar å, ä, och ö”.
 * The problem might occur in file:
    _/wp-content/plugins/booking-system/includes/
   calendars/class-backend-calendar-schedule.php_
 * On line #67:
    _$schedule = json\_decode(stripslashes(utf8\_encode($\_POST[‘schedule’])));_
 * Best regards,
    The Generation
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking-system/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/booking-system/)

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 *  [dijana1910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dijana1910/)
 * (@dijana1910)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162258)
 * I have same problem
 * is there any solution for this?
 *  Thread Starter [The Generation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegeneration/)
 * (@thegeneration)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162263)
 * It would be great if this could be resolved as soon as possible.
 * Please take a look at the notes in my first post in this thread, it might be 
   the $schedule variable the problem occurs.
 * Best regards,
    The Generation
 *  [dijana1910](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dijana1910/)
 * (@dijana1910)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162348)
 * i solved my problem, i am using Types plugin and Booking short code was added
   in WYSIWYG – types custom field. I change this, i removed from custom field Booking
   short code and added it into default content post editor and works fine, special
   characters are now well shown.
 * I am not sure where exactly the problem is (Types of Pinpoint Booking Calendar)
   but i guess this is some kind of solution, hope will help You too.
 * Kind regards
 *  Thread Starter [The Generation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegeneration/)
 * (@thegeneration)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162395)
 * This problem has unfortunately not been resolved yet, and we would be very grateful
   if the author for this plugin could resolve this issue as soon as possible in
   the right way.
 * Best regards,
    The Generation
 *  Plugin Author [DOTonPAPER](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotonpaper/)
 * (@dotonpaper)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162417)
 * The characters support is fixed in the next update.
 * Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [The Generation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegeneration/)
 * (@thegeneration)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162420)
 * This still doesn’t work. I saw that you used utf8_encode in one file and that’s
   most likely the code causing the issue.
 * If the text is already in utf8 then it just makes the text garbage.
 * In file class-backend-calendar-schedule.php on line 67 I changed this:
 * $schedule = json_decode(stripslashes(utf8_encode($_POST[‘schedule’])));
 * To this:
 * $schedule = json_decode(stripslashes($_POST[‘schedule’]));
 * And now it works great 🙂
 * There is no need to encode strings to utf8 if the database has the right encoding
   which it probably has if you’re from Sweden like me or another country that has“
   strange” characters.
 * Thanks in advance.
 *  Plugin Author [DOTonPAPER](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotonpaper/)
 * (@dotonpaper)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162424)
 * Thank you for your feedback.
    I will pass the information to the developer.
 * Thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [The Generation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thegeneration/)
 * (@thegeneration)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162439)
 * This issue is still not resolved.
    Can you please set this as a priority so it
   can be resolved as soon as possible?
 * Best regards,
    The Generation
 *  Plugin Author [DOTonPAPER](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dotonpaper/)
 * (@dotonpaper)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/#post-7162440)
 * Do you have the last version installed ?
    Please send an email about the issue
   at [support@dotonpaper.zendesk.com](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/special-characters-encoding-issue-like-a/support@dotonpaper.zendesk.com?output_format=md)
   to help.
 * Thank you.

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