Have you changed themes? Do you happen to have a copy of your previous theme?
Try editing header.php within your currant theme and just after the <head> tag, add:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
Hello and thanks for answering. I did not change themes. I dropped your code in below <head> and it had no effect.
Here is my current header in case it helps:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”><html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”><?php wp_head(); ?>
<head><meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo(‘charset’); ?>” /><link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://thecount.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />
<link rel=”stylesheet” href=”http://thecount.com/wp-content/themes/cognoblue/style.css” type=”text/css” media=”screen” charset=”utf-8″/>
<title><?php bloginfo(‘name’); ?></title><link rel=”alternate” type=”application/rss+xml” title=”Celebrity Gossip | Celebrity News | Hollywood Rumors | ThecounT.com Celebrity Mash Up! RSS Feed” href=”/feed/” />
<link rel=”pingback” href=”/xmlrpc.php” />
<meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />
<meta name=”robots” content=”all” />
<meta name=”keywords” content=”celebrity gossip, gossip, hollywood gossip, celebrities exposed, celebrity news, celeb photos, entertainment news” />
<?php if (is_single() || is_page() ) : if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php the_excerpt_rss(); ?>” />
<?php endwhile; endif; elseif(is_home()) : ?>
<meta name=”description” content=”<?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?>” />
<?php endif; ?>
</head>
by the way, I do have a copy of my theme but I did not change it.
It’s some sort of character set issue. Ideally, those characters should be removed but obviously, your older server/setup managed to deal with them. Since you recently moved servers, perhaps the collation has changed on the database?
http://codex.wordpress.org/Converting_Database_Character_Sets
gives instructions on how to convert from one collation to another but it would be handy if you had a db backup from your older server so that you could check what the collation was previously.
