Comments on: WordPress 2.9.1, beware of encoding issues http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/ Observations from a half-fried, half-Chinese, half-Australian American. Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:01:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: panic away reviews http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-98275 panic away reviews Sun, 30 Oct 2011 08:03:13 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-98275 Hello there, I discovered your site via Google even as searching for a similar topic, your website came up, it appears great. I've bookmarked it in my google bookmarks. Hello there, I discovered your site via Google even as searching for a similar topic, your website came up, it appears great. I’ve bookmarked it in my google bookmarks.

]]> By: elie http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-9457 elie Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:01:42 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-9457 no worries, a friend of mine helped me out. thanks. no worries, a friend of mine helped me out. thanks.

]]> By: elie http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-9455 elie Tue, 16 Feb 2010 19:25:44 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-9455 I do have a back up... What can I do? I do have a back up… What can I do?

]]> By: mike http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-9453 mike Tue, 16 Feb 2010 13:10:06 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-9453 Well, I just checked your site, it looks like it's serving as UTF-8. Perhaps the characters were corrupted during your last upgrade? Do you have a backup of the database before you upgraded it? Well, I just checked your site, it looks like it’s serving as UTF-8. Perhaps the characters were corrupted during your last upgrade? Do you have a backup of the database before you upgraded it?

]]> By: mike http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-9452 mike Tue, 16 Feb 2010 12:55:11 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-9452 Hi Elie, I'm not sure I can help here, I barely know anything about DB collation / encoding, but it might have something do with the encoding you're serving your pages under. Check 2 things: 1. The encoding of your php files - are they saved as UTF-8 without the byte-order mark (BOM)? 2. The meta tag in your HTML <head>: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"... -- it should be like this: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /> Hope that helps. Mike Hi Elie,

I’m not sure I can help here, I barely know anything about DB collation / encoding, but it might have something do with the encoding you’re serving your pages under.

Check 2 things:
1. The encoding of your php files – are they saved as UTF-8 without the byte-order mark (BOM)?
2. The meta tag in your HTML :

Hope that helps.

Mike

]]> By: elie http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/2010/01/10/wordpress-2-9-1-beware-of-encoding-issues/comment-page-1/#comment-9444 elie Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:31:33 +0000 http://asian-caucasian.stroke7.com/?p=35#comment-9444 Hey. I tried that for my blog, which was updated to WP 2.9.1 and all the Hebrew characters went wonky. Is it possible it's another version of utf8 I want? Or something different? Any help appreciated. Hey. I tried that for my blog, which was updated to WP 2.9.1 and all the Hebrew characters went wonky. Is it possible it’s another version of utf8 I want? Or something different?

Any help appreciated.

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