Strange characters appearing in text instead of Quotation Marks or Apostrophes

Is this a new site or upgrade?
What text formatting plugins active?
Typing in Visual or Code editor?

Is it really “typing” or copying from a word processor?

Can we see it?

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That appears once in a while. Replace it with an HTML entity. I don’t remember the exact one for apostrophe. It might be ampersand+acute+semi-colon or some other combination.

Those characters sometimes appear at the title of the article.

what’s ur website address?

I think it happened when I upgraded my WP the other day. I even dumped the contents of the table and put in backup content.

https://www.theuneasyrider.com

It was absolutely fine prior to the upgrade.

Thanks

sbilheimer,
I bet you did an automatic upgrade through fantastico.
The Codex has a warning about it, and there were tons of post regarding that issue.

Yes. I did. That’s it. Why is nothing simple. I didn’t think to look here since there was an automated warning about upgrading from my hosting provider and all I had to do was click a button. OK, I’m going to try the suggestion they had to fix it. Thank you so much. Susan

\r\n\r\n , shouldn’t that be strip off from database? i think u should check the charset in database. i use utf-8

cam_oai,
don’t post if you don’t know what are you talking about.
The “fix” for an automated fantastico upgrade is at the link I gave above. Period.

Hello All

My portal URL is https://aavaas.com

Last night my host provider switched servers. I do not know what steps he followed, but since then, I am getting all the strange characters appear in my blog as already described in this thread.

Help me to remove them please.

I saw one recommendation here – – > https://trevinchow.com/blog/2007/09/19/strange-characters-after-wordpress-upgrade/

But I do not want to try this since UTF-8 is the recommended character set.

please help.

Last night my host provider switched servers.
Unfortunately, that’s the key sentence in your case. It might be that the MySQL version on the old server and new server is not the same. That’s a huge problem but it is NOT related to WP… it’s more a MySQL bug.

Now, depending on your WP version the recommendation you quoted might work or not – but it will not affect your general settings for utf-8 charset; the one that you define in Options.

Looking at your blog it seems to me that in most of the cases your errors are produced by the fact that you hit the Space key more than once between words…

Thanks Moshu

If I read you right, you are suggesting that a new MySQL version in the new server (if it is the case) could be the reason for the bug?

My WP version is 2.3.1

I didnt know that space key could be treated for a strange character.

Does this mean, I could manually edit the posts and remove the spaces?

Editing the posts might help. It’s just a lot of manual work. You may also consider using a plugin (Search and Replcae) to do it faster. Of course, if you try that – BACK UP the database before doing it!!!

As a thought: make a test post and hit the Space more than once after a word or after period. See the results…

Hello Moshu

I just posted a test post on the site. It looks pretty ok to me.

Any thoughts?

That’s strange. WP should remove those spaces… at least, it does remove them on my test installation. I am getting more and more confused.

The only thing I can think about right now: try to find the “pattern” – where those strange characters appear in your older posts? What character should be there normally?

in most cases “space” is replaced by “?”

but it is not consistent. in most paragraphs there is space between every word. that is normal. towards the end of the paragraph, the “?” tend to appear.

I do not know yet if characters like “‘” or “!” are being also replaced.