Title: Encoding issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Encoding issue

 *  [Matt B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtc/)
 * (@dtc)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue/)
 * Hi,
 * I would like to go ahead and update my install but my current database seems 
   to have characters encoding issues :
    – all my options (header, meta, RSS) are
   set to UTF8 – the database tables and fields are latin1 – as a result, the data
   stored in the DB look like this in phpmyadmin :
 * > je suis allàƒÂ© chez AmàƒÂ©lie
 * instead of :
 * > je suis allé chez Amélie
 * What would be the best way to set all the data in UTF8 ? I saw g3org3x’s plugin
   but it only modifies the DB structure. I would like to do the data as well.
 * Thanks

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 *  Thread Starter [Matt B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtc/)
 * (@dtc)
 * [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue/#post-728226)
 * I should prolly add that I’m running 2.3.3 at the moment. I started a few years
   ago with WP 1.2 – encoding was latin1 (ISO-8859-1) back then.

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 * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/)
 * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [Matt B.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtc/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/encoding-issue/#post-728226)
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