WordPress Dashboard Characters Messed Up

Check the source code of the admin page, and search for meta charset. You page should contain a <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> tag to instruct the browser the characters on your page are encoded in Unicode (UTF-8). This character encoding supports all characters, and is also recommended encoded for your pages for indexing in Google. If … Read more

UTF-8 Characters in URL – IE problem

Have a look at the PHP function urlencode(), that will hopefully help. Also, in the latest update of WordPress (3.3.1) they have fixed it so that permalinks (post slugs) no longer contain special characters. This of course doesn’t help with your already existing slugs, but I’m sure there are ways and means of cleaning that … Read more

character encoding problem in custom template

Maybe it is caused by commenting out the charset meta tag? You should have this in your header: <meta charset=”utf-8″ /> You can see in your source that this meta tag is commented out – maybe while debugging this problem. <!–<meta charset=”UTF-8″>–> Additionally you could check if your database settings are set to utf8_general_ci or … Read more