Title: Character format error?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Character format error?

 *  [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-format-error/)
 * I’m moving a wordpress installation from one web host to another. i used PHPmyadmin
   to export the database and import it on the new server. I think most everything
   is working except for some reason all the pages and posts have weird characters
   now. Like a diamond with a question mark in it for example. I think it is not
   understanding line breaks, non breaking spaces, etc. Any ideas how I can fix 
   this? It’s basically every single page in wordpress.

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 *  Thread Starter [warpdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/warpdesign/)
 * (@warpdesign)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-format-error/#post-1832494)
 * Also, for reference, the .sql file I downloaded says it is utf8 and when I uploaded
   it using phpmyadmin I also selected that from the dropdown menu…
 *  [louis.brandon99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louisbrandon99/)
 * (@louisbrandon99)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-format-error/#post-1832761)
 * Generally the collation is set as utf8_general_ci.
 * Make sure that you have selected the correct collation from the home page of 
   phpmyadmin from drop down menu.

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 * Last reply from: [louis.brandon99](https://wordpress.org/support/users/louisbrandon99/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-format-error/#post-1832761)
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