Title: Swedish characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Swedish characters

 *  Resolved [nissemannen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nissemannen/)
 * (@nissemannen)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/swedish-characters/)
 * I import a page with some mysql-data into a WordPress page. The swedish characters
   are exchanged with something ‘different’.
 * If I open the page which is imported it’s in plain swedish, but something’s happening
   when imported to a WordPress page.
 * Anybody has a solution to that?

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 *  [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/)
 * (@podz)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/swedish-characters/#post-292284)
 * The database itself – mysql – might be imposing it’s own encoding.
    If you are
   familiar with phpmyadmin, you could look inside the database to see how it has
   stored the letters. If they are different there, it’s a database problem. If 
   they are the same there, it’s after that – post back if it is ?
 *  Thread Starter [nissemannen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nissemannen/)
 * (@nissemannen)
 * [20 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/swedish-characters/#post-292490)
 * Very strange. Today it works! I’ve done nothing but had a good nights sleep:)
   
   Yesterday I had to rewrite every swedish character with special characters. Tonight
   I don’t! Well, I better not worry, just accept it…!
 *  Thread Starter [nissemannen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nissemannen/)
 * (@nissemannen)
 * [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/swedish-characters/#post-292687)
 * The problem has recurred!
    mysql stores my swedish caracters; I can see them 
   in phpmyadmin. If I open a separate html-page with my mysql-data and charset=
   iso-8859-1 everything works all-right (but not in utf-8). but when I try to import
   my data in WordPress it doesn’t – as I use utf-8 in WP. I’ve tried to change 
   the separate page’s charset to a different charset, but that did’nt help. (And
   I don’t want to.)
 * How do I control which charset the data in mysql is put in?
    It seems it would
   be best to have it in utf-8 there? How do I do that?

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## Tags

 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [Import](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/import/)
 * [MySQL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mysql/)

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 * Last reply from: [nissemannen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nissemannen/)
 * Last activity: [20 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/swedish-characters/#post-292687)
 * Status: resolved

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