Wrong smybols in text

Hello, I have the same problem, that is visible here:

https://games.cristianoleoni.com/

I have other blogs which don’t trigger the problem, I checked and tried to disable other plugins but it seems only Advertising Manager produces this effect. If you need a copy of the site to reproduce the problem, just contact me (email at the about page of the above site)

Thanks

Same happening here. Isolated Advertising manager as the culprit.
If there are any   in the text it shows as a question mark
Wordpress 4.1.1, Magazinium theme V3.

I have the same problem.

admarkt: moreno84: hafman: himil1:

There was an upgrade of WordPress which required a new methodology of shortcodes. We had to modify any ads that were embedded in posts with a new shortcode format. It appears that there was an encoding problem when saving posts that had our shortcodes.

Even after many tests, and the fact that the automatic upgrade was optional, the encoding still broke for a small number of users.

One method of changing back is to do a MySQL REPLACE in your posts table in your database (after backing up your data!):

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/string-functions.html#function_replace

After a many strange, wrong symbols in the text on my sites I was finally able to fix the problem myself, if anybody has the same problem, with version 3.15.3 you just apply this change:

file advertising-manager/advertising-manager.php
line 123

replace:

return preg_replace_callback($patterns, ‘advman_filter_content_callback’, html_entity_decode($content));

with

return preg_replace_callback($patterns, ‘advman_filter_content_callback’, $content);

in brief: that html_entity_decode() just breaks the code.

My recommendation is to NOT perform a mysql search+replace.

With this simple fix all ads display beautifully, e.g.:

https://www.simplestgallery.com/what-is-simplest-gallery-plugin/

Long live Advertising manager, by far the simplest and most intuitive plugin for ads around!