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# daveren

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 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Diacritic Marks & special characters problem WP4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diacritic-marks-special-characters-problem-wp4/)
 *  Thread Starter [daveren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveren/)
 * (@daveren)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diacritic-marks-special-characters-problem-wp4/#post-13201007)
 * Update:
    The link to my web site above is a duplicated test site that I have 
   made some changes to recently. Please refer instead to the original site that
   I have not changed: [https://www.todcreekwatershed.ca/](https://www.todcreekwatershed.ca/)
   This site is still on WP v4.7.
 * I did manage to update the test site (2019-todcreekwatershed.ca) to WP v5.4 and
   it did not correct the problem.
 * I am thinking now that there is conflict with the character encoding between 
   the site settings and the database settings. On the test site, I am investigating
   how to properly correct that situation. So I have changed the “collation” field
   in PHPmyadmin, table: wp_posts: post_content, from “latin1_swedish_ci” to “utf8mb4_bin”.
   This works for the page posts, but now the text in all the pages are littered
   with question marks (instead of spaces?). Everything else appears OK.
 *   Forum: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
   
   In reply to: [Diacritic Marks & special characters problem WP4](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diacritic-marks-special-characters-problem-wp4/)
 *  Thread Starter [daveren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveren/)
 * (@daveren)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/diacritic-marks-special-characters-problem-wp4/#post-13187501)
 * Update: Based on the suggestion on this webpage: [https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-fix-the-character-encoding-problem-in-wordpress-1480](https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-fix-the-character-encoding-problem-in-wordpress-1480)
   
   I commented out the 2 define, UFT coding lines in the wp-config.php file and 
   it solved the character recognition problem ….. but ….. now all my original text
   is lost from the page editor. So I swapped back to the original config file. 
   So it looks like a incompatibility with the text encoding, eh?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [[ColorWay] Home Page feature heading wrong](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-feature-heading-wrong/)
 *  Thread Starter [daveren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/daveren/)
 * (@daveren)
 * [9 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/home-page-feature-heading-wrong/#post-8753257)
 * Thank you, Macwitty!
    The upgrade fixed it.

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