Weird characters in 3.4.1 ??!

  • Hi. Ever since I upgraded by blogs, I’m seeing a problem with weird characters coming up when I save posts.

    Some googling suggested this may be related to character set. But I’ve always used UTF8, everywhere. All my databases are UTF8 and the collation is UTF8_unicode_ci.

    In the wp_config file, I used to have “DB_COLLATE” and “DB_CHARSET” set, but since the last many versions these have been commented out, as suggested by WordPress.

    Now suddenly this weird character problem.

    What gives? How can I fix this? I’m spending days just fixing unpredictable text in my text!

    Thanks.

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  • Hi,
    try to change the DB_COLLATE and DB_CHARSET settings to enable by deleting the comment mark. can you share your site address?
    Regards

    Thread Starter pkiula

    (@pkiula)

    Thanks jnhgy. The website is pade summit dot org (remove the spaces and replace dot with a .)

    What should the exact code be? Is this correct?–

    define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_unicode_ci');

    I have tried this, and this did NOT solve the issue. Also, doesn’t WordPress recommend leaving them commented out? Thanks!

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