Strange characters after WordPress upgrade
After I upgraded my last wordpress installation on my blog and on Green Is Sexy, strange characters were appearing in our content throughout the site. There seemed to have been encoding problems with apostrophes (‘), quotation marks (“) and hyphens (-). They’d be displayed as question marks or ’.
Turns out that the fix is really simple. By default, the WordPress config files now set your character encoding to UTF-8. The solution is to open up wp-config.php file and located these lines:
define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
and either remove the “utf8″ string so the first line becomes:
define(’DB_CHARSET’,'');
define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
or you can just comment the lines out completely by prefixing each line with “//”:
//define(’DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);
//define(’DB_COLLATE’, ”);
Problem solved!
Thanks. This really helped. I was getting these  characters after the upgrade.
Chetan
5 Nov 07 at 8:50 am
Didn’t work with me!
still have (????)
ShaRBiL
14 Nov 07 at 12:11 pm
Thanks this worked perfectly!
ProjectJohn
22 Dec 07 at 6:04 am
Worked for me as well, thank you so much!
Walter
6 Mar 08 at 8:02 pm
thanks, that fixed it for me!
Robert
27 Apr 08 at 5:34 am
Thanks, man! I had the *exact* thing happen last time I upgraded, but I tend not to store facts like that and had forgotten what I did to resolve it; I guess my cache is too small… Glad that someone was thinking to blog this!
Michael
23 Oct 08 at 5:33 am
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29 Oct 08 at 9:23 am
Thanks! This worked like a charm. I wonder what happened to the couple of posts I edited to remove the strange characters? Oh well.
kai
9 Dec 08 at 7:53 am
Thanks!!!
Paul
18 Jan 09 at 4:01 pm
You saved me! My hero.
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20 Aug 09 at 9:03 am
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