Problem with German Characters

  • Resolved Soccerwidow

    (@soccerwidow)


    1 year, 2 months ago

    I cannot find the setting to get the page to display German characters.

    I’ve already checked wp-config and it seems correct.
    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
    define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

    Checked the SQL database and the setting also seems to be correct. I even tried a few different settings but without any joy.

    What else may be causing that error?
    Displyaing Schlie??e instead of Schlie?e, etc.

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  • Check via phpmyadmin with which character set the tables were created there. It should be utf8mb4. You can also

    define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8mb4');

    times. Or the same character set of the database tables. Talk to your hoster about this.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by threadi.
    Thread Starter Soccerwidow

    (@soccerwidow)

    Thank you but it didn’t help unfortunatelly.

    I just checked the SQL database, and it’s set to utf8_unicode_ci and displays strange characters too.

    I need probably to change that to something that recognises German characters but although I know a little bit of programming, this probably goes beyond my knowledge.

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 2 months ago by Soccerwidow.

    Do the characters in phpmyadmin look correct?

    Have you contacted your hosting support about this?

    Thread Starter Soccerwidow

    (@soccerwidow)

    Contacted the hosting company and it wasn’t a hosting issue but a setting. They assisted me to define the DB Charset right in wp-config:

    define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘latin1’);

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