Title: Weird Text Encoding
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Weird Text Encoding

 *  [paulcredmond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulcredmond/)
 * (@paulcredmond)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-text-encoding/)
 * Everything was going fine on this WP site I created until one day the client 
   said his video embeds weren’t working anymore. I had a look at the outputted 
   html and can see that HTML characters are replacing the normal punctuation.
 * Annoyingly, I can’t post the code here because it parses the characters and loads
   them as correct HTML on output! The only thing I can think of is [link to an image](http://twitpic.com/bxcnau)
   so you can see the code.
 * I have a feeling it’s a character encoding problem, but can’t see how. WordPress
   is using UTF-8 and the database is set to utf8_unicode_ci.
 * Any ideas on this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [paulcredmond](https://wordpress.org/support/users/paulcredmond/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-text-encoding/)
 * Status: not resolved

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