Greek Characters Being Replaced by “????” in Titles and Descriptions

  • Resolved donalaserbeautycentre

    (@donalaserbeautycentre)


    6 months ago

    Hi, I am experiencing a problem with the Yoast SEO plugin on my WordPress site. Whenever I edit the SEO Title and Meta Descriptions for my posts or pages, any Greek characters are replaced with question marks upon saving.

    I’ve tried troubleshooting on my end but have not been able to resolve this issue. It seems to be a problem specifically when using Greek characters.

    Could you please provide guidance on how to fix this? Any assistance or insights would be greatly appreciated!

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  • Hello, please check site encoding, and database encoding. UTF-8

    Thread Starter donalaserbeautycentre

    (@donalaserbeautycentre)

    Καλησπ?ρα Evangelos,

    1. Database Charset and Collation:
      • The database is set to utf8mb4_unicode_ci.
      • The charset in wp-config.php is defined as:define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4');
    2. Character Encoding in .htaccess:
      • The .htaccess file includes the directive:AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    3. HTML Header:
      • I’ve ensured that the theme’s header contains the <meta charset="UTF-8"> tag.

    Is there anything else you would recommend I look into or any additional steps you think might help resolve this?

    Thread Starter donalaserbeautycentre

    (@donalaserbeautycentre)

    I wanted to provide a bit more context regarding the encoding issue we’re experiencing. The problem appears to be isolated to the SEO Title and Meta Description.

    To clarify, all other parts of the website that contain Greek characters are functioning correctly without any issues. The characters display properly throughout the site, including posts, pages, and other content areas.

    Thread Starter donalaserbeautycentre

    (@donalaserbeautycentre)

    I managed to fix the issue by updating the database collation for all tables to utf8mb4_general_ci.

    Thank you!

    Μπρ?βο, sorry I wasnt very clear, database collation, sorry about that.

    Plugin Support Maybellyne

    (@maybellyne)

    Hello @donalaserbeautycentre,

    Thanks for reaching out. I have tested this but couldn’t replicate it; my SEO title and meta description show up as expected in Greek characters. See screenshot. Do you see the question marks in the page source or the SEO title and meta description fields in the Yoast SEO meta box?

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