Upgrade problem – french to chinese characters in

  • Hello ! I just upgraded my blog from WP 1.02 to 1.2, and it seems it screwed something up. All the special french characters (accentuated a’s and e’s) in existing posts were replaced with chinese characters (or japanese kanjis, but that’s not the point). Hell, even the blog title (R?′le de Je) is acting up. (Check it on https://www.gap-online.net )
    The weirdest part is that the latest post, which I added after the upgrade, doesn’t seem to be affected by this… and another surprise was to see that when trying to edit an older post, the kanji-whatever-thingy also appeared instead of the original text. Could it be the database was somehow affected by the upgrade ?
    I tried to find similar problems in the archive, without success. I hope you can help… Guess I’ll turn back to WP 1.0.2 in a week or so if there’s no solution :p

Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)

  • Hello Gap,
    Did you fix it yet? I also have the same problem with the accentuated characters, all the special spanish characters appear like this: espa???±ol (supposed to be with ?± not with ???±) how can we fix this??? =/

    Hello! can somebody help us here?

    It’s been a week now, how come nobody’s answering! >_<

    I believe this is how she fixed it:
    <meta http-equiv=”Content-Type” content=”text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1″ />
    in index.php
    changes character encoding back to 8859-1 which is what WP1.0.2 used, I think.

    Indeed. You can change that in WP 1.2 under Options > Reading.

    Thread Starter Gap

    (@gap)

    Forgot to login. Anyway, I guess this still qualifies as a temporary solution. I wish someone with coding skills and way too much time on their hands would fix some sort of tool to convert old posts in the DB to the new encoding… but I guess that’s a low-priority issue.
    By the way, I’m not a “she” :p

    Oops, sorry Gap, I have no idea why I made that assumption. I read somewhere on here that it’s possible to convert the database encoding by downloading the whole DB, opening it in a text editor, saving it in a different encoding and uploading back to the server. Haven’t tried it though, and I wouldn’t know which editor would be suitable (I use vim but my skills are pretty basic, pointers would be appreciated). If you do try it though, make sure you back everything up!

Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total)
  • The topic ‘Upgrade problem – french to chinese characters in’ is closed to new replies.