Special Characters

  • Been looking around the forum but couldn’t find somethig that worked for me…
    I’m using the latest nighly, and I am having trouble with the special characters… there’s something wrong with the way they are sent to the MySQL DB, cuz I go the with phpmyadmin and after editing mannualy the characters are correct once again… but having to do this every time I post (there are a lot of special characters in Portuguese)
    for example… I write down some nonsense to test it like
    a ? 123￡￡￠￡￠3￠345
    and it comes out like
    ?￠ ?￡ ?1?2?3?￡?￡?￠?￡?￠?3?￠?345
    in the post. The strangest thing that in the edit box, if you choose to edit the post after it’s ..err… posted, it’ll come out right
    but in the Post Preview it come’s out wrong…. that’s in the same page!
    can someone shed some light into this?

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    anyone? anyone at all? My blog is in portuguese…

    I am having smilar problems with special characters. For instance: ? é ‘ are all converted to unreadable things. Does anyone know where you can ‘fix’ this? Thanks!

    Right, I found this thread:
    https://www.ads-software.com/support/index.php?action=vthread&forum=6&topic=3210&page=0#post-4
    That may help…

    I’ve also the same problem, and my site is already in “ISO-8859-1” as suggested in the thread above…. I got this problem after I switched servers (the blog was on a cobalt, and now on a plesk server).
    Anyone?
    greetings,
    Reinier (www.reinier.biz/weblog/)

    I also had this problem with textile a couple of months ago when I was playing around with that…. and textile is on the ‘to do’ list, so maybe the error is in textile or something like that?
    Reinier

    I’m hosted on a plesk server too. But it seems the ISO encoding fixed my problems. But I’ll keep you posted.
    (nice blog by the way, Reinier ??

    Thanks ??
    My problem is still here…
    If I comment on a post, and use é ü ? for example, I see this:
    ?? ?? ??
    Then, when I go the “edit this (comment)” then I see this:
    é ü î
    So it looks like something is going wrong with the translation of the database to html? right?

    Yes, WP must be encoding special characters to keep the site valid XHTML.
    I recently upgraded to one of the nightly versions (of March 25), while at the same time changing the encoding to ISO. Maybe they fixed this issue with the special characters in CVS, and is that what fixed the problem for me…

    I hope so, didn’t had the problem in 1.01. But when i moved to a new server and upgraded to 1.02, the problem began.

    there is an option where u can disable the function that automatically try to fix xhtml. creates problems for me too ??

    Ah, that worked!
    I changed ‘use_htmltrans’ from TRUE to FALSE.
    But what are the disadventages of this setting now?

    I also use_htmltrans from some time ago, with success but comments remains with improper characters. If I edit a comment it is displaing propertly, but when I save and view it it has grong displaing.
    (I use a just upgraded CVS version)

    ysidoro:
    I’m not sure whether we’re talking about the same problem. I blog in Chinese (double-byte), and the comments also come out garbled. Other threads on this forum provided a fix that works for me: edit wp-includes/kses.php line 411 (where it says to deal with the Opera feature) to use ereg_replace instead of preg_replace.
    And as for actual articles, I changed the language meta tag in the head section in index.php to use UTF-8.
    I don’t really understand why these works for me, and I’m not sure if they work for you. I suppose as long as we use natively English software, we’ll have to deal with these kinds of complications over and over again.

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