incubus

The latvian characters look OK on your WP.

Anyway I haven’t still figured out what the problem really is, but that query definitely helps.

Had the same problems with my own forum and unicode lately, but thankfully I found this in the PHP online manual:

“If you experience weird problems, like some UTF-8 characters (the Unicode character &#x010D and a few others in my case) seemingly being changed to garbage by mysql_query, you may need to do something like this before your actual query:

<?php
mysql_query(“SET NAMES ‘utf8′”, $conn);
?>”

So is this being done by WordPress? I think not because there are plenty of posts about the same issue. Any developer comments..?

Yes, no matter where, post or comment, some characters are not displayed. And when editing a post for example, or seeing a comment in the admin section they show up the same as on the page.

I switched the WP (only, left Apache and MySQL as they were) setting to WINDOWS-1257 (Baltic) and the latvian characters where showing up fine, but when you try to edit that post you get the whole text in HTML entities(?) (e.g. #097; etc.) which is also bad.

Looks like I’ll have to fully switch back to WINDOWS-1257…

https://insomnia.id.lv/wp/

OK, on this page everything shows up as it should so the problem is somewhere on my server. Any advice?