amirhosain

Why every update fixes some parts and ruins the others?

This is the first item of every developer’s checklist :

CHECK THE PLUGIN BEFORE RELEASE!

Bad news:
Kudos to EXCELLENT SUPPORT (!) of this plugin, there’s no easy way to restore UTF-8 characters which turn to non-sense symbols after update to 1.5.1 .
Good News:
I tried many ways, but at last found a very weird solution :

1) Select and copy symbols of each cell to clipboard
2) Go to this online converter :
https://string-functions.com/encodedecode.aspx
3) Change “Encode with” to Windows 1252
4) Change “Decode with” to utf-8
5) Press “Encode/Decode” button
6) Correct text will appear under “The encoded / decoded string:”
7) Copy and paste correct text to replace symbols inside the cell

This should be done for each cell of every table one by one !!!

Note :
In my case, Windows 1252 to utf-8 worked. But you may need to tweak with these choices based on your language.

If you’ve rolled back to 1.5.0 (which is ineffective), DO NOT update to 1.5.1, or you’ll get non-senese symbols again.

Lots of kudos and loud claps for the developers!
Maybe your premium plugin explodes whole website instead of tables?!

Dear alltomtrav thanks for your prompt replies, but sorry not to get your point.

I’ve tons of non-senese symbols, even after rollback.

How can I change manually this huge amount of messed characters to the original text?

Thanks alltomtrav.

But rollback to 1.5.0 doesn’t work for me, all non-english characters are shown as non-senese symbols still.

Did you do any extra steps besides of rolling back?

Solved!
After disabling and then enabling Yoast and Visual Composer and some cache purging, suddenly all problems solved!
Many thanks!
But it’s very strange and scare me to death!
How these separate plugins can have conflicts with each other and also WYSIWYG part of WP?

Guss77, you’re angel!
This problem turned into a nightmare for me and read whole of the internet, nothing else worked. Though you’ve written the solution very concise and professionally with no details, but I broke the code and at last, your solution worked!

Many Thanks