Started getting ? appear in posts

I fixed it.This was a really old tip but it worked.

In the wp-config file:

I changed

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

to

// define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

All the ? characters have disappeared. Hope that change to my wp-config file won’t cause any problems.

It was resolved but is back again. That solutions seems to have been a band aid and not a real fix. Any ideas?

Here is an example from my latest post I just published today https://gwmac.com/basil-ghali-turns-himself-in-and-charged-with-reckless-conduct/

An aggravated assault, a? felony in Georgia, is an assault that is committed:

? with the intent to rob, rape or murder

Notice the ? characters appearing randomly. This is a really big deal and leaves a very bad impression to visitors. I really need to get this fixed. I will provide any additional details anyone needs to help me solve this.

I found a guy that was having the same issues and he has attempted many ways to resolve it with screenshots but he still hasn’t been able to eliminate the problem.

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/156626/strange-characters-despite-everything-being-utf-8

There has to be something that will fix this. I also tried the UTF-8 Sanitize plugin but it didn’t work. I am now skeptical to try all the other things he tried like changing the database’s character set and collation in MYSQL or dumping the entire MySQL DB, then removing all older non-utf8 characters via TR command. That didn’t solve his problem.

I really hope there is a solution because this is really a major issue.

Hi Alan,

Do you still have that problem? Because I visited your site and it’s all fine.

I hired a guy that fixed it. It was a problem with the charset in MYSQL database. Probably a simple fix for someone that knows how to repair it but I didn’t want to risk messing around there. He charged $50 .

All the other simple fixes I had found and tried didn’t really work.

The problem should be the <charset>.

And, glad to hear you fixed that ??

You ain’t kidding. That rendered my site almost useless and made me look like an idiot that couldn’t type or edit. lol

I can solve most problems but anything to do with changes to MySQL database and I am helpless.