Title: Character set wrong
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Character set wrong

 *  Resolved [Knut Sparhell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knutsp/)
 * (@knutsp)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/)
 * After update to 1.9 my WordPress shows bad characters for all non ASCII characters,
   on front and in admin.
 * I use PDO, UTF-8 and nb_NO on a multisite.
 * When db driver is removed from Settings, all is fine.
 * Do you need me to test something, just ask.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-db-driver/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-db-driver/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Marko Heijnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markoheijnen/)
 * (@markoheijnen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168464)
 * Can you test out every driver. Curious if it’s just PDO or not. Will investigate.
 *  Thread Starter [Knut Sparhell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knutsp/)
 * (@knutsp)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168541)
 * Works fine when `define( 'WPDB_DRIVER', 'mysqli' );`
 * PHP 5.5 with mysql, mysqli, pdo and pdo_mysql
 *  Thread Starter [Knut Sparhell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knutsp/)
 * (@knutsp)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168545)
 * Also fine with `define( 'WPDB_DRIVER', 'mysql' );`, after unloading and reloading
   db driver in Settings.
 *  Plugin Author [Marko Heijnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markoheijnen/)
 * (@markoheijnen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168549)
 * I did change that set_charset() method which only for PDO return false and then
   should fallback on the previous code. I will see how I can test this out and 
   fix it.
 *  Plugin Author [Marko Heijnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markoheijnen/)
 * (@markoheijnen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168574)
 * Can you try the version on GitHub? [https://github.com/markoheijnen/wp-db-driver/](https://github.com/markoheijnen/wp-db-driver/)
 *  Thread Starter [Knut Sparhell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/knutsp/)
 * (@knutsp)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168598)
 * No problems,
 *  [barthat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/barthat/)
 * (@barthat)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168621)
 * I was also having the same problem and the latest GitHub version fixes it.
 *  Plugin Author [Marko Heijnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markoheijnen/)
 * (@markoheijnen)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168650)
 * Just released the update. Sorry for the problems. I will now start working on
   writing unit tests before releasing a new update to prevent this kind of issues.

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 * Last reply from: [Marko Heijnen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/markoheijnen/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/character-set-wrong/#post-5168650)
 * Status: resolved