Problems with German umlauts

Oh, I should have mentioned that German umlaust display correctly within the posts but are corrupted only in the automatic excerpts…

So I guess the problem of the theme deals with these very old posts…

Any support greatly appreciated!!!

Could you share a link to the site? I may be able to provide a customization to fix the excerpts, but I just want to check it out first.

Dear Ben,
thanks for your rsponse. As I mentioned, the project is not online yet. And it may be aproblem that is not Tracks-specific as I just realized. In early 2013 I had migrated my project from Posterous to wordpress.com. Now it seems that all posts that had been published on Posterous are creating problems for the excerpts.

I just switched my theme on wordpress.com to one with excerpts and have thus replicated the problem that I encountered with Tracks offline. Please have a look:

https://ainanani.wordpress.com/tag/dubai/

All posts prior to March 2013 show the same problem – corrupted German umlauts and special characters in the excerpts, while they are all displayed correctly within the postings themselves.

Although this seems not specific to Tracks, any advice or support is highly appreciated!

I have a few ideas worth checking out.

First, the problem could be with the font. I would make sure that it supports the umlaut character as not all fonts will have this included in their “character set.” If the font is on Google Fonts, it’s pretty easy to look it up there and see which characters it supports.

Second, the character itself in the text could have gotten corrupted during the transition. Find a post with an umlaut in it and switch the editor from the Visual view to the Text view (screenshot). Locate the umlaut and check if it displays properly or if it has a different series of characters replacing it. If so, replace with a regular umlaut while in the Text view and this should help.

Thanks, Ben.

Unfortunately it is neither the font nor a corrupted text body…

I suppose that the excerpts are not generated from the scratch each time the blog archive page is loaded but rather once when the blog post is completed and uploaded. Is there a file for each excerpt that I could edit? I looked up the data bank via myphpadmin and found a column called excerpt. It was basically empty. But it had entries for those posts , which show corrupted excerpts… I just only do not know how to edit these entries…

In the post edit screen, scroll to the bottom and check the Excerpt box there. Do you see any text for these posts?

Hi Ben,
found the simple way to see the excerpts in the wordpress dashboard and editor. It seems I will have to go through all the posts imported from Posterous by hand and one by one, because the umlauts in these excerpts are corrupted. Probably a bug in the export or import procedure at that time.

Thank you for your support once again!!!

Found an even better option… Deleting all the excerpts. They were imported from Posterous and treated like manual excerpts, which overwrite the automatic excerpts otherwise created by wordpress…

Ah okay that makes sense. Glad you found a faster solution to fix them ??