Comments on: MySQL character encodings

By: Vilyanur Chandra Poudel

Vilyanur Chandra Poudel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:48:13 +0000

I solved the problem by typing the html code which i got from site http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_symbols.asp instead of using inbuilt wordpress character typing option.

By: Vilyanur Chandra Poudel

Vilyanur Chandra Poudel — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:43:03 +0000

i have similar problem but not in comments.
In my wordpress post http://oscience.info/mathematics/introduction-to-set/ i have written some characters.
But when i view my post from any browser then ? is displayed instead of the required character!
Can you help me please?

By: Bennett

Bennett — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 01:05:23 +0000

@Frank, thanks for the pointer. Unfortunately, wp-typography wouldn’t have helped with my problem, because it only handles character display and requires that all text is encoded as UTF-8. My problem was that the characters were not correctly encoded in the first place.

Looks like an interesting plugin though!

By: Frank MacDonald

Frank MacDonald — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 16:50:46 +0000

Re: there is a plugin called wp-typography. If you know a little php i suggest you use it as a little modding will have this plugin fixing any character display problems

By: Bennett

Bennett — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 09:05:15 +0000

That is a bit mysterious. At least it seems that the characters are OK in the database, since they at least sometimes appear OK! It looks as if there might be a problem with your theme…

By: Frank

Frank — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 16:01:56 +0000

Hello mate,

I like this trail of thought. Ive encountered the problem from another angle. When i update my wordpress blog with an article passed through the xmlrpc.php api the character encoding doesnt work for characters like ” and – instead returning html code or broken characters. The funny thing is the post titles work fine in wp-admin but on the theme front end they are broken… maybi the solution lies in the php code used for displaying post titles in the admin section.. because it appears to convert any type of character encoding back to what its supposed to look like.