Title: Text Encoding Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Text Encoding Problem

 *  [Sjakelien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjakelien/)
 * (@sjakelien)
 * [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-encoding-problem/)
 * When I create a new post on my self-installed Word Press, I encounter the following
   problem:
    When I type, or paste, so-called ‘special characters’, like ‘ü’ or ‘
   é’, (my blog is in Dutch), they end up as ‘ü’ and ‘é’ in the Post Preview, 
   in the actual Post, and also, if I want to edit the post afterwards, they appear
   garbled in the (WYSIWYG) editor. My database is setup in UTF-8. Actually, if 
   I just copy and paste the text with PHPMyAdmin straight into the WP-Post table,
   it works just fine. So, somehow, TinyMCE, or anything else in the chain between
   the form in which i type my post, and the database incorrectly tries to interprete
   my typing. This happens in both Firefox and Safari on the Mac, and it started
   happening with version 2.6.1. I hoped that 2.6.2 would have fixed it, but it 
   didn’t. Suggestions anyone?

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 * [special-characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/special-characters/)
 * [utf-8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf-8/)

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 * Last reply from: [Sjakelien](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sjakelien/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/text-encoding-problem/)
 * Status: not resolved

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