Upgrading to 2.7 – Weird Symbols – wp-config file question

  • Resolved remdog

    (@remdog)


    15 years, 11 months ago

    Howdy folks. ??

    Normally when I upgrade to a new version, from time to time I get some weird symbols that appear through my posts. In the past I have been able to take care of that my removing 2 lines of code in my wp-config file. Looks like this:

    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    I upgraded to 2.7 and I got those symbols again so I opened the wp-config file and uh oh.. It looks completely different and I can’t seem to find these definitions. Any ideas on how to remedy this problem in 2.7 ??

    Thanks for your time

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  • Thread Starter remdog

    (@remdog)

    Oops found them. I had opened the wrong file. But just to let others know you can find them in 2.7 appearing like this:

    /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

    /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    Had the same problem and solved it the same way. Thanks.

    Hi there, I’m having a similar issue on a client’s site, but when I open the wp-config.php file I don’t see what you’re referring to. There’s hardly anything in there. Can you confirm it should be the wp-config file?

    Update: It *is* the wp-config.php file – my client had a very old version in there. However, that didn’t seem to fix the problem. Boo. ??

    Thanks!
    Joelle

    I am experiencing this problem too. I am seeing these characters showing up everywhere:

    a€“
    ?

    I tried commenting out the following lines in wp-config.php but that didn’t help, any ideas?

    //define('DB_COLLATE', '');

//define('DB_CHARSET', '');

    I had the same problem after the upgrade to 2.7

    After reading this I deleted

    “/** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);

    /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. */
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);“

    from my wp-config.php.
    This sorted it out.

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