Title: Strange character encoding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Strange character encoding

 *  [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/)
 * (@tijmensmit)
 * [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-character-encoding/)
 * I’m working on plugin and save some data in the meta field.
 * The normal value it has in admin panel is this “Kalávrita”, but once it has been
   saved it becomes “Kalu00e1vrita”
 * In another post I found someone who said I should try to set the charset and 
   collate to utf8 in the wp-config, but that doesn’t change a thing.
 * define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ‘utf8_general_ci’);
 * Any ideas would I need to do to make sure the name doesn’t get messed up in the
   database when saving the meta field?

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 * Last reply from: [Tijmen Smit](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tijmensmit/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/strange-character-encoding/)
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