Character set display in 2020 / 2021 default themes

  • My site is old, with an old custom-made theme, and as a starting point, I am trying out some of the newer default themes using Live Preview. I still have the old themes installed from Twenty Eleven and up to current Twenty Twenty-One. My site displays correctly in all previous themes, except Twenty Nineteen and Twenty Twenty. In these two themes only, the text displays as all question marks [????]. Even the latest theme Twenty Twenty-One displays correctly.

    Before I start rebuilding the Database, are there simple adjustments I can make to Twenty Twenty theme to persuade the text to display correctly?

    Better yet, does anyone understand why this is occurring, especially in only these two default themes?

    [Yes, running 5.7.2 with all plugins updated.]

    Anyone else have this problem?

    Thanks.

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  • Hi!

    Does the problem persist if you delete the theme copy, and download it again? Just in case the files are somehow corrupted.

    Thread Starter petrarchpress

    (@petrarchpress)

    Unfortunately I’m getting the same issue after uninstalling, logging out, and reinstalling both themes. :\

    Thanks for the suggestion. Good try.

    I see now that each theme has it own support forum, so I think I’ll leave this hear and cross-post to Twenty Twenty Theme Support.

    Thread Starter petrarchpress

    (@petrarchpress)

    Welp, I just tried Live Preview using the 2019 and 2020 themes again and they both displayed the text correctly. (!)

    There are no custom fonts. I did nothing to the database, did not re-install the themes, and did nothing to my normal theme. So, some update to WordPress must have repaired the situation I was encountering. (Maybe somebody up above saw my post here.)

    ˉ\_(ツ)_/ˉ

    Anyway, all good now. Thanks for your thoughtful responses.

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