Now wrong character encoding

  • Hi all,
    after upgrading I encountered a problem with character encoding. The language of the blog is german, and, you know, we have some umlauts in our language. I have (and had) set unicode-8 as encoding (UTF-8). But now my umlauts appear quite funny:
    umlaut a (?) is A with tilde above plus circle with x
    umlaut ? (?) is A with tilde plus paragraph-end sign
    umlaut u (ü) is A with tilde plus 1/4
    sharp s (?) is A with tilde plus Y with two dots above
    Trying the common encodings (ISO 8859-1, ISO 8859-15, windows-1252) had no acceptable result, there were other funny signs, but no real umlauts…
    Any hint?
    Richard

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  • What version did you upgrade from?

    Thread Starter r_a_mueller

    (@r_a_mueller)

    2.3(.1?)

    I had the same problem before. For some reason the mysql developers have
    latin1_swedish_ci as the default table type if none is specified or set
    in as the default table type. So my upgraded content got corrupted even in English.

    Then I ran my database backup and eliminated all twisted things. Keep in mind that I have used the WordPress Database Plugin 2.1.5 ( playing with the phpMyAdmin’s backup didn’t help to clean that mess).

    If the blog was orginally created before version 2.2 you may need to delete the DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE line in wp-config.php as is explained in Editing wp-config.php.

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