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(@blogdolci)
17 years, 6 months ago
I updated my blog to 2.2 and now the accent changes in strange letters.
WHY?
https://blogdolci.com
for example sufflé becomes SOUFFLEa€?
why?
can you help me?
(@michaelh)
If you are doing an upgrade, you SHOULD NOT have DB_CHARSET and DB_COLLATE in your wp-config.php file. [1]
Resources: Editing wp-config.php Converting_Database_Character_Sets
[1] if you previously (before 2.2) made changes to the SETNAMES and COLLATION in wp-db.php then you can use the wp-config.php file to make those settings without having to modify wp-db.php
wp-db.php
plese be more clear. i do not understand…
thanks
(@wixti)
17 years, 4 months ago
I runned in the same problem after updating WP to 2.2
Hopefuly the UTF-8 Database converter plug-in put everything back in order. Really easy to use.
Be sure to look at the read me file and to back up your database (I used the very good Backup plug-in