This is well know issue but for some reason it is not resolved since 2013 https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/22363 You can always sanitized filename by yourself using sanitize_file_name filter. /** * Sanitize filename to not brake links with UTF-8 characters * * WordPress allow to upload files with names containing UTF-8 characters. Some * browsers do not handle … Read more
If you have checked your database entry of the page/article, you will see that it is a issue on Database side, or by any means there was restoring going on because of the crash, that could be an issue or a restoring plugin/script with a bug why a simple character as ‘ gets messed up. … Read more
This means the file is encoded in UTF-32, an encoding that PHP doesn’t support. Open the file in a text editor that does support it, and convert it to UTF-8 without BOM. You should also check the other files in that plugin and contact the author to make them aware of the problem.
Whew – Ok I figured it out. First off thanks Pippin and Peter. The problem is that it apparently confuses some wp plugins if a specific collate hasn’t been declared in wp-config: /** Database Charset to use in creating database tables. */ define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); /** The Database Collate type. Don’t change this if in doubt. … Read more
When you retrieve the data make sure to call stripslashes, or stripslashes_deep if it’s an array. $name = stripslashes($name);
This happens because search strings gets url encoded in order for the URL to be valid. You can reverse this with urldecode.
The tip in Part 2 at the site you link that reads Unzip the database you’ve downloaded and open it with text editor (Notepad++ or Dreamweaver) and use “Find and Replace” option to change “http://olddomain.com” with “http://newdomain.com” and then import it with phpmyadmin. is absolutely wrong. Running a find/replace on a database dump with a … Read more
Alleluia… After multiple trials (like converting my tables to utf8_unicode_ci — didnt work), here’s the only successful fix I found : define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’); In wp-config.php, replace utf8mb4 by utf8.
I would try using the HTML Unicode versions to see if any of them work, and in the options, you could array them against the full word instead of the symbol. array( ‘id’ => ‘before-price-label-for-example-per-month’, ‘label’ => ‘ Before Price Label :’, ‘type’ => ‘select’, ‘options’ => array( ‘euro’ => ‘€’, ‘usd’ => ‘$’, ), … Read more
My guess is that you pasted something from a Windows environment and that’s the CR (carriage return, I think) character. I’d go into the editor and just remove those line breaks. That should fix the problem. Also, you might look into standardizing the content type meta tag. You’ve got <meta charset=”UTF-8″ /> I could be … Read more