Brughagedis, I’m a little unclear about your procedures, I’m only a dba because I use WP, not because I know what I’m doing! I’ve got the same problem with character rendition that you had, upgrading from 2.0.2-Yahoo to a standard 2.3.2. Did you use g30rg3x’s converter, then modify the dump? Or did you just export it, specifying UTF-8, then import it? Or is there a phpMyAdmin command besides import that you used? Thanks…