Character encoding problems

  • Hi there guys. I’m running a site on https://www.dependence-guild.com and I am having some strange problems with some special characters.

    Every time I try to put a ‘ character, I see it correctly on the database tables and on the edit post section of the blog, but when I see the web page, that character is rendered as a ? character. I’ve tried changing the encoding of the table in mysql from various types (from utf to latin1) bot doesn’t work at all.

    Could anyone help me with that? Thanks.

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  • Are you writing your posts directly through WordPress, or are you using something like Microsoft Word or WordPad (or other rich text editor) to write your posts, then copying and pasting them into the WordPress area?

    Usually that’s the issue when stuff like this happens.

    Thread Starter thebell

    (@thebell)

    I’m using the wordpress editor. Actually I can see the character well in the editor of wordpress and in the database through phpmyadmin.

    Which version of wordpress are you running?

    Thread Starter thebell

    (@thebell)

    2.1

    Thread Starter thebell

    (@thebell)

    Actually when looking at the html source code the ‘ symbol ys translated to this:

    %253F

    Which is actually the ? symbol.

    Stalker’s War Bands gets typed as

    Stalker%253Fs%2BWar%2BBands

    So it renders as

    Stalker?s War Bands

    instead of what should be.

    If I were to *guess* – I don’t know how right htis would be – but open up your wp-includes/default-filters.php file, and just *comment out* (don’t delete) the lines that are in the content and comments area that contain “wp_special_characters” – see if that helps. (If it doesn’t, you can just uncomment and no damage done.)

    Oh, when you comment them out and save it, you’ll have to re-save the posts or it won’t take. Give it a shot and see what happens (this worked with older versions, but I haven’t seen it in 2.1 yet).

    (and for the record, I’m not seeing this on your site – I see the apostrophes just fine.)

    Actually, it seems that all those weird characters come form here:
    https://www.dependence-guild.com/itemstats/updateitem.php?item=Stalker%253Fs%2BWar%2BBands
    and those are not WP issues.

    Thread Starter thebell

    (@thebell)

    OK, could be a problem with that plugin. Thanks for pointing to the right direction, I’ll give it a look when I have time and let you know.

    Thanks!

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