Title: Encoding fail
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Encoding fail

 *  [Tevashov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tevashov/)
 * (@tevashov)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/)
 * Hi. I’m trying to export my DB (utf-8) using WP migrate DB and I’m getting file
   in something like ‘Western (Mac OS Roman)’ encoding. It’s not a problem do convert
   in to utf, but my website in Russian and contains cyrillic letters. All of them
   looks like ‘–ú–∏—Å—Ç–µ—Ä’ in an sql dump, produced by WP migrate DB. Everything
   worked before some update, but now it’s broken.
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/wp-migrate-db/)

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 *  [Harish Chouhan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hchouhan/)
 * (@hchouhan)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977432)
 * Just a guess. Can you try having the charset in your config to utf8 and see if
   it works?
 *  Thread Starter [Tevashov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tevashov/)
 * (@tevashov)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977480)
 * Everything is in utf8.
 *  [Standish](https://wordpress.org/support/users/standish/)
 * (@standish)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977490)
 * Same problem here. Been using this script for many sites and had no problem with
   this. Everything is in UTF8 also. This is one of the “rare” website that is not
   using WPML (yet) and is only in English (for now).
 * Thanks for the great plugin though,
 *  [infoxicated](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoxicated/)
 * (@infoxicated)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977493)
 * Was there ever a resolution for this?
 * I’m getting similar issues with weird characters appearing in the dumped text.
   The db collation is UTF8_unicode_ci.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Brad Touesnard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradt/)
 * (@bradt)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977494)
 * Can one of you upload your original database to Dropbox, Google Drive, or similar
   and send me the link at [http://bradt.ca/contact/](http://bradt.ca/contact/)?
 *  [infoxicated](https://wordpress.org/support/users/infoxicated/)
 * (@infoxicated)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977495)
 * Will do.
 *  Thread Starter [Tevashov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tevashov/)
 * (@tevashov)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977496)
 * Done.
 *  Plugin Contributor [Brad Touesnard](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bradt/)
 * (@bradt)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977497)
 * Thanks, will look into it soon.
 *  [Chris A. a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/aprea/)
 * (@aprea)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977499)
 * Hey Guys,
 * I work with Brad on WP Migrate DB and thought I’d chime in here to try to figure
   out what might be happening.
 * Brad has provided me with a few of the dumps that you guys have provided for 
   testing purposes. This is what I’ve tried so far:
    1. Import the original dumps into my local environment
    2. Get the website running (by changing admin password / home & site urls / etc)
    3. Dump the website data via phpMyAdmin ( i.e. dump-1 )
    4. Dump the website data via WPMDB
    5. Import the WPMDB dump into the same installation
    6. Dump the website data via phpMyAdmin ( i.e. dump-2 )
 * I then ran a diff tool across the phpMyAdmin dumps dump-1 and dump-2. Unfortunately
   they appear to be identical. So WPMDB appears to be doing it’s job in that the
   data is exactly the same before and after the import.
 * It sounds like you guys are seeing odd characters in the dumps but is this actually
   affecting the content at all? That is, are you seeing weird characters on the
   front end of the website when you import the WPMDB dumps?
 *  [Highfilter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/highfilter/)
 * (@highfilter)
 * [11 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-fail/#post-3977532)
 * Getting the same issue. Exported the DB from a live WP install and brought it
   down to a local environment and seeing encoding errors on the front-end of the
   site. When I check the actual DB dump file as well, I can see the weird encoding
   errors.
 * Stuff like:
 * `Today's`
 * Will appear like:
 * `Today’s`
 * Any help would be appreciated.

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