Diacritic Marks & special characters problem WP4

  • When I copy/paste in text with diacritic marks or some special characters into the body of a page, I get question marks instead of the proper character. I have tried adding a font that is known to work with these characters. Some special character do not work as well, such as theta, omega and pi.

    Here is some example text I am attempting to show: “words like W?SáNE?, SEN?O?EN, ?W?,?ENE?ITEL all”

    This older site is using WP v4.7 and I noticed that using another site, using v5.4, that there is not a problem with diacritic marks or any of the special characters. The site indicates that the WP version is fully updated. Can this older installation not be upgraded to v5.4? This site uses UTF-8 encoding and my new site (v5.4) uses UTF8mb4 – could this be the problem?

    I have tried changing the theme.

    Any assistance would be much appreciated.

    The page I need help with: [log in to see the link]

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  • Thread Starter daveren

    (@daveren)

    Update: Based on the suggestion on this webpage: https://www.tipsandtricks-hq.com/how-to-fix-the-character-encoding-problem-in-wordpress-1480
    I commented out the 2 define, UFT coding lines in the wp-config.php file and it solved the character recognition problem ….. but ….. now all my original text is lost from the page editor. So I swapped back to the original config file. So it looks like a incompatibility with the text encoding, eh?

    Thread Starter daveren

    (@daveren)

    Update:
    The link to my web site above is a duplicated test site that I have made some changes to recently. Please refer instead to the original site that I have not changed:
    https://www.todcreekwatershed.ca/
    This site is still on WP v4.7.

    I did manage to update the test site (2019-todcreekwatershed.ca) to WP v5.4 and it did not correct the problem.

    I am thinking now that there is conflict with the character encoding between the site settings and the database settings. On the test site, I am investigating how to properly correct that situation. So I have changed the “collation” field in PHPmyadmin, table: wp_posts: post_content, from “latin1_swedish_ci” to “utf8mb4_bin”. This works for the page posts, but now the text in all the pages are littered with question marks (instead of spaces?). Everything else appears OK.

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