apostrophe in page menu subtitle

A bit more leisurely trawl thru this support topic found this thread – guess it is the same problem (especially as my ‘￡’ symbols are rendering as ‘?￡’.

Haven’t checked through the supplied links yet, but it does seem my answer is within them.

Hey milestone,

Checkout this question on the FAQs page I believe it may help or provide some clues about this issue:
-> Browse to: https://lifeinthegrid.com/duplicator-faq
-> Find question: “How can I fix strange characters?”

Hope that helps!

Thanks Cory

I’m extracting all the possibilities to a checklist so, when I’ve got a clear space, I can compare ‘live’ to ‘downloaded’ to ‘re-uploaded’ versions of ‘likely suspects’ to see what has changed. Then I can do any tweak necessary before I migrate any site to live in the future.

I think I could understand it more if this was occurring with a local installation phase rather than just a migrate round-trip to the same server, but, hey, I do get character encoding can be a black art with lots of parameters to fiddle with.

Cheers!

I would also pay attention to the collation types on the tables and the MySQL versions across the different DBs that your using. There is another FAQ that goes into this in detail that may help see:

Why does the WordPress installer show up after I run the installer.php file.

Hope that helps!

Thanks again!

It would makes sense if I was using the local ServerPress MySQL installation (and I will check this thoroughly before I start developing locally) because I know that WP4.2 introduced a sea-change in character encoding internally.

I do also know that my reseller host is still on the lower rungs of MySQL 5.1 and, in an ideal world, it would be on >5.5.3. I also know that if you develop in >5.5.3 then you can’t go back to 5.1 without taking a huge risk. So I’ll probably downgrade the MySQL in ServerPress.

Which is why I was just round-tripping with Duplicator alone. And I also took the precaution of setting up a new WP install to create the DB, read the DB connection details, deleted the actual PHP files by FTP without running the WP setup, and only then ran the Duplicator installer.

Be nice to fix this, but a manual sweep to replace a few dodgy characters is not the end of the world.

Cheers!

Yeah I agree a smooth fix would be nice. I have done some reaserch on how I could easily do it and haven’t come up with a clean solution yet. The process sofar seems a bit involved. It may be something we try and tackle in the Pro version since we have more resources…

Cheers~