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January 15, 2017 at 11:31 pm #733833

tlchase
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I am having a major issue throughout my site having ‘special characters’ such as â,€,™,Â appearing throughout the site as shown on the screenshot below.
Please see notes in private section

The following old article: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7861358/strange-characters-in-database-text-%c3%83-%c3%83-%c2%a2-%c3%a2-%e2%82%ac
seems to be related since I was unable to find any similar issues reported in this forum.

Please help!

January 15, 2017 at 11:51 pm #733834

tlchase
Participant

The following article appears to have a resolution that I’ll try:

Seeing Weird Characters On Your Blog? Here’s How To Fix Your WordPress Character Encoding (Latin1 to UTF8)

Thanks

January 16, 2017 at 8:01 am #733930

Rikard
Keymaster

Hi,

Thanks for sharing that, let us know how you get on with it :-)

Best regards,
Rikard

January 18, 2017 at 6:32 am #735133

tlchase
Participant

Unfortunately the person overseeing the server states that they looked at the database and All the tables are using utf8.

Any other suggestions??

January 20, 2017 at 9:15 am #736299
Nikko
Inactive Moderator
Hi,

In your wp-config.php do you have:
```
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
```
or
```
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4');
```
? try switching if that doesn’t work, try using this plugin https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-search-replace/ and try to search and replace the characters.

Best regards,
Nikko
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