Title: Saving is breaking my code?
Last modified: December 24, 2021

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# Saving is breaking my code?

 *  [Duke Snoogens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeloucas/)
 * (@mikeloucas)
 * [4 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-is-breaking-my-code/)
 * If write this code: e.g
    add_action(‘edit_user_profile’, ‘custom_user_profile_fields’);
 * it saves this code:
 * > add_action(& # 039;edit_user_profile & # 039;, & # 039;custom_user_profile_fields&#
   > 039;);
 * it’s replacing the ‘ with the ASCII version
 * I tried commenting out this, but it didn’t work:
    //define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);//
   define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);
 * not sure if it’s the plugin or a conflict somewhere else; it just started…
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [Duke Snoogens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeloucas/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [Duke Snoogens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeloucas/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [Duke Snoogens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeloucas/).
    -  This topic was modified 4 years, 5 months ago by [Duke Snoogens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikeloucas/).

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 *  Plugin Author [Shea Bunge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bungeshea/)
 * (@bungeshea)
 * [4 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/saving-is-breaking-my-code/#post-15621068)
 * I’m wondering if this is down to your database table encoding. I’d try backing
   up all your snippets (using the export feature), then deleting the `snippets`
   table in your database and re-importing them.

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