Question mark in black diamond replaced ￡ – but only in comments

  • Hello ??

    I recently had course to restore my blog database using php myadmin by importing a back up. Now I’ve noticed all instances of the ￡ sign have changed to black diamonds with a white ? in all my old comments.

    I’ve found several old threads on here with similar issues but mine seems different in that all characters (including the ￡ sign) in the actual articles are correct, and as far as I can see all characters and punctuation in comments is correct – only the ￡ signs in comments are affected.

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  • Thread Starter Whitegoodshelp

    (@washerhelp)

    Due to lack of an answer ?? I had to edit every instance manually. It took around 8 hours. The puzzle was that all ￡ signs and other characters were perfectly ok in all the articles and only appeared in comments – and then only in a percentage of them. There were examples of comments that did not have this issue despite containing the affected characters such as “￡” and “&”.

    Due to the fact that no articles were affected and only (roughly) 70% of comments I can’t see how it could have been a character code declaration issue.

    As it happens I found around 20 or more broken links in the comments whilst doing the laborious task, and generally tidied up some things, so it was probably for the best in the end but how and why it happened is a mystery.

    My main concern is, not knowing what caused it – how do I stop it happening again if I have to restore my database from MyPHP admin?

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