I have this exact problem with 2.5.1 but adding those lines to .htaccess just gives me internal server errors unfortunately
Can you tell us what worked for you? I still have this problem
I have the same problem although it didn’t happen immediately upon upgrading.
I can’t log in as admin and thus cant try some of the solutions offered. I checked my config file and because I haven’t changed it through several upgrades of WordPress it didn’t have the line
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
at all. When I ftp’d the newer version across with this line in it, I still had the problems plus an accented word in my most recent post was suddenly showing garbage. I am wondering if the problem has to to with accented text in some way?
I am not sure what to try next.
This issue is NOT resolved
