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Thanks dugdesigns. Another option Bluehost gave was to force UTF-8 through the .htaccess file. This tells any browser visiting the site to use UTF8 instead of UTF8.mb4.
Open the .htaccess file and add the following code:
AddCharset UTF-8 .html .htm .phpCan anyone advise whether there are drawbacks doing this?
I also have this character encoding problem after migrating a site. There are random question marks within diamonds instead of spaces. Unfortunately, I only know enough to get myself into trouble if I start editing databases. Bluehost sent me instructions on converting a MySQL database to UTF-8, but it begins sounding Greek to me. I may have higher confidence entering all the text again manually in WordPress since it is still new site.
It would surely be nice to have an easy fix within Duplicator. The migration went smoothly, for which I’m grateful. But the character encoding problem took me a couple of hours to search and identify. Now I need to do the conversion while keeping my fingers crossed that I don’t screw something up.