Title: Character encoding problems in description
Last modified: September 1, 2016

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# Character encoding problems in description

 *  [mattiasjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattiasjo/)
 * (@mattiasjo)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-in-description/)
 * Hi. After moving a site to a different FTP I’ve gained problems with the character
   encoding in the description. Chars like ‘å’, ‘ä’ and ‘ö’ doesn’t display and 
   instead replaced with other characters.
 * I have tested to enable charsetscan but unfortunately without any result. My 
   database is also configured to use UTF-8 and I’ve tested several other things
   that unfortunately haven’t worked either.
 * I figured someone else here might have had the same problem or might know how
   to help.
 * Thanks in advance!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-import/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/rss-import/)

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 *  Thread Starter [mattiasjo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattiasjo/)
 * (@mattiasjo)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-in-description/#post-7674900)
 * To clarify: The rest of the site’s encoding works perfectly well. Also the encoding
   in the title coming with the RSS works well too. It’s just for some reason the
   description where unwanted characters appears.
 *  Plugin Author [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * (@bueltge)
 * [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-in-description/#post-7674918)
 * Is the plugin file with the right encoding, also UTF-8? Maybe you have change
   this via the FTP process.

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 * Last reply from: [Frank Bueltge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bueltge/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-encoding-problems-in-description/#post-7674918)
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