encoding

Get ?? for unicode characters

Try to change encoding rule to utf8 in your databse. This can easily be done with phpMyAdmin for example. If this does not solve your issue, add encoding attribue to your Html tag. Hope this helps.

WordPress sends all HTML content encoded as UTF-8. If you save a file in a single-byte encoding, like Windows-1252¹, you create invalid characters for UTF-8. These are displayed with a replacement character, usually (but not necessary) as a question mark in a black diamond. Always use UTF-8 for everything. Do not use a BOM (byte … Read more

When you retrieve the data make sure to call stripslashes, or stripslashes_deep if it’s an array. $name = stripslashes($name);

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

The reason commenting out (see q ) didn’t work is that the data was wrong in the database, so no encoding change could fix it. I restored the database by copy pasting the sql script into PHPMyAdmin, and the text box interpreted the text as having the wrong encoding. By using import in phpmyadmin and … Read more

If you search your content for these characters ‘ â � you will not find them, because they are not there. Characters ‘ â � like these are a sign, that the character encoding in the frontend does not match with that from the database. Normaly wordpress used for database, file endcoding and character encoding … Read more

It looks to me like you’re not using an actual apostrophe, but one of the curly apostrophes, such as those that Microsoft Word might be configured to auto-correct to. There is a chance that your mysqldump was actually exporting it incorrectly. In my test database, both PowerShell and Command Prompt were dumping as ΓÇÖ, whereas … Read more

Try this: $title = get_post_field(‘post_title’, $post_id, ‘raw’); However I’d get to the bottom of what encoding reddit code would prefer. Echoing raw stuff is poor idea for security.