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Strange characters in WordPress

Strange characters ’ and  in WordPress posts
Error : After a wordpress upgrade we started to get all kinds of weird symbols in our posts, including  and ’. I figured it was a character encoding mismatch problem.
Solution:
You have to comment out two lines in your wp-config.php file (found in your main blog directory). These are the two lines:
define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
Comment them out like this:
//define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
//define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
Fixed our problem.

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2 Thoughts to “Strange characters in WordPress”

  1. Marcus
    June 16, 2012 at 5:05 am

    I did this and It did nothing but reset my WordPress theme to default.

  2. Rishikesh Vispute
    June 19, 2012 at 2:00 am

    Hello,
    yes, some time this is working and some time not.I think the problem due to some plugins

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