duemer

Not sure what you are saying here. I haven’t changed anything & the question marks remain. I do have a ticket in at Bluehost so perhaps they are fiddling with it — I have not had any notice from them, however.

The Vietnamese is OK.

All the posts were entered using the WP editor, no cut & paste. I think it’s mostly m-dashes — and double quotation marks that get replaced, but I’m not 100% sure if those are the only characters.

the Codex says that utf8 is almost always the best option. Okay. But I had to go to utf8_general_ci because I wanted to display Vietnamese characters & there is not yet a dedicated utf8 language charset for Vietnamese.

The site still seems to be able to display Vietnamese correctly–it is those inserted question marks that has changed.

Here is the site url:

https://sharpsand.net

Right. Got that. But there used to be a place in Settings >> Readings to put in the charset. Maybe it’s no longer necessary in 3.5.1?

Unfortunately, after updating, the encoding is broken on my site right now — it’s full of those dreaded question marks in little diamonds.

Thanks, I figured it was something like that, but I wasn’t sure which file or folder. Again, thanks!

In my case, deactivating most of my plugins seems to have fixed the problem.

Any word on when 2.8.1 will be released? Otherwise I may revert to the previous version.

Yeah, several times over the last few days. Also tried running in a dif browser with the same results.

By the way, it’s nice to have someone actually respond in these forums. Thanks.

The Screen Options button does not respond either.

Same here. This version of WP is really pretty badly broken. Can’t upload media from the visual editor, tags don’t work. Sloppy.

None of the upload media tags work in the Visual editor in 2.8. And the Add tags button also seems to be disabled.

Now the button for adding tags seems to have quit functioning as well.

I’m having the same problem as Stariel above. Also the Quick Edit link in the list of posts seems to not be working.