Update to 0.9.2.6 a Disaster for me Too!

  • Resolved robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)


    11 years, 9 months ago

    I’m a W3TC fan, and a long time user, on 4 different sites. The latest update does not play well with my Headway 3.4.4 Theme, and adds/changes all kinds of weird characters to text. The word Résumé becomes “R??sum??” and this text:

    “Thirty years of training and experience- have produced effective techniques- in a variety of liturgical and musical- environments, an expanding- knowledge of music of the church, and valuable occasions for personal- and spiritual growth.”

    Turns into this:

    “Thirty years of training and experience?- have produced effective techniques?- in a variety of liturgical and musical?- environments, an expanding?- knowledge of music of the church, and valuable occasions for personal?- and spiritual growth.”

    I’ll try a clean install when I have time, but for now my beloved W3TC is deactivated!

    Rob

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  • Hello @robnalexpress some have previously posted that it is best to uninstalled the old plugin delete all the plugins files from your sever via FTP and install the new upgrade. This has worked for all who have reported issues like yourself.

    Try and see if this works. It might also fix the issue you are having with your theme.

    Kind regards

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    Can you temporarily activate and submit a bug submission form from the support tab of the plugin?

    Thread Starter robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)

    @frederick Townes-

    Submitted bug submission. Tried complete removal and clean install. Still getting the strange mangled text with W3 active.

    Thanks for all your work on this amazing plugin. I’m grateful, in advance, for any assistance. I have 3 other sites running W3TC, and reluctant to upgrade ’till I get this figured out.

    Rob

    Hi, I am doing the same as @robnalexpress. I am not going to upgrade until 80% to 90% report success with the next release or which ever release is right. My site is doing great with the 0.9.2.5 version”modified version”.

    This is a great plugin, thank you Frederick Townes. I know you will get it right soon.

    I will wait ??

    Kind regards

    I had the same problem yesterday. Added the encoding meta to the head and cleared the cache and the problem was gone.
    Hopefully it is solved in a plugin update.

    Hello

    My entire site goes like this:

    ??}?V????V?AqΞ?=???{?? ?${& g ????,?? n?? M”Os??<?W%?n?/?>&?[V?J?R?W%??{?????N??q4q????_Em4????gO??_????u??? ???u?g??????m4??i}???8?q??t$N.?(GY?"K9x??'Z???^????> $?B,'?W?(P?K???<??"iw?(#?>?F??~?#nrWp ?1?????2ja?Q?t*?3v.?c?E????b?}%bWQ?sL??E?qd?}?4?????E6??}e^R?h???p|?k??v????h??3]??h??n??a[rz????9??N ?1??K~?1(! ??bd?  ?'> y?&??HT?????x$?B???z??:&?1ma?????W~9=%???q?????K)???aY?f??7?;????g01?? Hv$??q

    My header looks like this:

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN” “https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd”&gt;
    <html xmlns=”https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml&#8221; dir=”ltr” lang=”en-US” xmlns:og=”https://opengraphprotocol.org/schema/”&gt;

    <head>
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=utf-8″ />

    Any ideas?

    Looking further into it, it is caused by the Page Cache settings. If I disable those but enable the rest it works fine.

    I am using WP 3.4.2 also, not 3.5.1.

    Plugin Contributor Frederick Townes

    (@fredericktownes)

    @nemoprofeta, what did you add exactly?

    @keating

    please start your own topic;

    hijacking an existing thread does not help anybody.
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post

    I added this line, which was not present in the head of the html
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=UTF-8″ />

    I also cleared the cache, don’t know if clearing would have been enough.

    Thread Starter robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)

    For me, this issue occurs when page cache is set to Disk: Enhanced. Changing the setting to Disk: Basic eliminates the issue for me.

    Thread Starter robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)

    The fix, posted here by nisiwi, solved it for me:

    Just add

    AddDefaultCharset utf-8

    to your htaccess file in the wp-content/cache/page_enhanced folder and voila problem resolved!

    Thanks, I hope soon a new release will include this fix.

    Thread Starter robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)

    Note to other users of the above fix:

    If you empty your W3TC page cache after adding “AddDefaultCharset utf-8” to the htaccess file in the wp-content/cache/page_enhanced folder, you may get a W3TC warning that new rules need to be written to the file. If you click auto-install, it will overwrite the change and you’ll be back to square one, so just click “hide this message” and ignore it.

    Rob

    Thread Starter robnalexpress

    (@robnalexpress)

    FWIW, I just upgraded 3 other sites to version, 0.9.2.8, fully expecting to have to use the above fix, however my sites that have a static front page do not have this issue- it’s only on the sites that have a blog index on the front page.

    UPDATE: Posted too soon- Seeing it on the other sites now too.

    Rob

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