Title: Character encoding problems
Last modified: June 2, 2017

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# Character encoding problems

 *  [jetsystemservices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jetsystemservices/)
 * (@jetsystemservices)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-2/)
 * I really do not know if W3 Total Cache is the cause of my problem.
    I already
   updated to the last version of it.
 * My problem started some months ago after a WordPress update but after that the
   Host did more updates (forced) so I cant go back nor know to which version.
 * OK. The problem is that the Pages are being generated with various “?” character
   in the page but not many and is the only awkward char.
 * The page is shown correctly in the Page Editor and I think is being saved correctly
   in the database. I took the html code from the database and created an html file
   in notepad and save it in UTF8 encoding and when I open it in the Browser it 
   shows correctly.
 * I took the same code and save it in notepad in ANSI encoding, and when opened
   in the Browser it showed incorrectly exactly the same as shown from the Site 
   Output.
 * So is something during the Output process or the Cache process.
 * I already tried to disable the Total Cache plugin to test and cleared the Browser
   cache but still got a bad page. But I do not know if WordPress keeps serving 
   the pages some reminder cache.

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 *  Thread Starter [jetsystemservices](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jetsystemservices/)
 * (@jetsystemservices)
 * [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-2/#post-9189293)
 * Sorry I did not provide my site link.
 * [http://jetsystemservices.com/en/mission/](http://jetsystemservices.com/en/mission/)
 * This is one of my pages with the problem.

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 * Last activity: [9 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-2/#post-9189293)
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