Title: Migration and encoding
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Migration and encoding

 *  [zeraeiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeraeiro/)
 * (@zeraeiro)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-and-encoding/)
 * Hi,
 * I’ve searched this site on google and couldn’t find an answer. Sorry if this 
   is a repost.
 * I’ve migrated wordpress from an old server. On the old server phpmyadmin was 
   configured to ISO-8859-1. I backedup the database, changed it, saved it, and 
   then restored it in the new server indicating that the file was encoded in latin1.
   The new server phpmyadmin is configured to UTF-8.
 * My question: is the database in UTF-8 or is it in ISO-8859-1?
 * Also, I copied the files from the old server, and now all the settings that were
   in those files (excepting the database) all present encoding errors (very few
   which can be corrected in admin). Is there a problem with this?
 * Thanks in advance,
 * Zé Raeiro

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 *  Thread Starter [zeraeiro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zeraeiro/)
 * (@zeraeiro)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/migration-and-encoding/#post-395932)
 * I spotted a gaffe on the question, this is what I meant:
 * is *now* the database in UTF-8 or is it in ISO-8859-1?

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