Title: UTF-8 Stumper
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# UTF-8 Stumper

 *  [rcanine](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rcanine/)
 * (@rcanine)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-stumper/)
 * For some reason, I cannot get special characters to show up in browsers. When
   encoded as UTF-8. I’ve got PHP sending a UTF-8 header, XML encoding declaring
   UTF-8, and my MySQL database is set to en-utf-8. I’ve even put the hack in my.
   htaccess file described in [http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/14/helping-wordpress-deal-with-exotic-text-encoding/](http://unknowngenius.com/blog/archives/2004/08/14/helping-wordpress-deal-with-exotic-text-encoding/)
 * I use UTF-8 for precise punctuation in my blog at [http://ryancannon.com/](http://ryancannon.com/)
   any suggestions?

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 *  [Firas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/firas/)
 * (@firas)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-stumper/#post-215972)
 * Dunno what’s killing your dashes, but you know WP can do that automagically right?
   Hit three hypens in your input box for a dash in the output, three dots get changed
   to the ellipses character, etc.

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

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 * Last activity: [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-stumper/#post-215972)
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