Comments on: How to Fix the Character Encoding Problem in WordPress

By: Dave

Dave — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 17:35:37 +0000

THANK YOU! We actually needed to ADD “define( ‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);” IN on the wp-config file when we had this issue moving from Dreamhost to Hostgator. But it worked like a charm on a 500+ page website. This literally saved us dozens of hours.

By: Vitaliy

Vitaliy — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 22:20:26 +0000

Thank you for saving me a TON of time. This helped me out after a DB restoration,

By: Raphael Oliveira

Raphael Oliveira — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 18:55:36 +0000

You´ve just saved my blog! Transfered to another server. Thank you.

By: Dragan Đermanović

Dragan Đermanović — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 23:21:38 +0000

I had similar problem during some plugin fixing but unfortunately this was not solution for my problem.

Apparently it was not up to db charset/collation but symptoms were just the same…

BUT (in case someone is in the same jam):
have opened file in Dreamweaver –> checked out if encoding is unicode utf-8, ok –> Save As with checked “Include Unicode Signature (BOM)” in the Save As dialog and ta-daaa!!!

By: Charlotte Coleman

Charlotte Coleman — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:24:45 +0000

Thanks a lot – this issue has been investigated by the hosting company for 3 weeks to no avail. I thought I’d take a quick look myself and found your post. Really helpful!

By: Technology Resources

Technology Resources — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 06:53:25 +0000

Awesome man,You have saved me from getting fired. I have been struggling with this character encoding problem since many days. Thanks alot.

By: location voiture Casablanca

location voiture Casablanca — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 01:45:41 +0000

thank you very much for this soluttion, but i find only line :

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

and i remplaces with

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8′);

and that’s work ^^

thank you

By: Jessi

Jessi — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 09:43:29 +0000

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I’ve been struggling with this for over a year with one of my wordpress sites and your post is the first and only simple solution….that worked! Thank you so much!

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By: Jesper Wilfing

Jesper Wilfing — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:36:43 +0000

Aight.. I managed to solve this by changing the coding of the PHP pages themself with notepad++:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/401149?replies=2