WordPress v3.1 Has Character Encoding Issue With Title/Permalink?

I solved the problem. The permalink slug under the title of a new post would not let me tweak the slug for some reason. I was able to get rid of the unwanted ‘-‘ in the permalink by heading to the posts list and clicking quick edit to edit the slug over there.

Hata!: SQLSTATE[HY000] [1045] Access denied for user 'divattrend_liink'@'localhost' (using password: YES)