Unknown Character Showing Up

  • jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)


    17 years, 4 months ago

    I’ve been seeing something strange with my blog for over a year now, and I can’t quite figure out what’s causing it. In short, when I use the “MORE” command, and when the automatic “Previous Entries” link shows up, I see this character: �

    It might not show up for everyone here the same, because I think it’s one of those UNICODE things: for me it’s a small question mark in a diamond-shaped box. This is being automatically generated by WordPress, so it seems like it’s a character that WordPress is calling yet I can’t figure out how to “give” WordPress the right character.

    You can see this problem live on my blog (www.jasondunn.com) by looking at the Barack Obama post.

    Any ideas? I’d love to know how to fix this.

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  • Samuel B

    (@samboll)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    strange
    open your theme’s single.php and look for this bit of code:

    <div class="content">
<?php the_content('Read the rest of this entry &raquo;'); ?><div class="clear"></div>
<?php wp_link_pages(array('before' => '<p><strong>Pages:</strong> ', 'after' => '</p>', 'next_or_number' => 'number')); ?>
</div>

    see what’s after “Read the rest of this entry”

    Thread Starter jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    samboll – thanks SO Much for responding! I think this is what you’re asking about:

    <?php the_content('<p class="serif">Read the rest of this entry &raquo;</p>'); ?>

    So what should it say…? 🙂

    Thread Starter jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    Hmm – I took a look at the WordPress default template, and it looks like it has exactly the same code in there…so now I’m confused. Although maybe the solution is to simply change it to something that will display without trouble?

    Thread Starter jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)

    17 years, 4 months ago

    I tried changing it to something simple, such as … or –> and I still get the unknown character. I’m so confused. 🙁

    Thread Starter jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    Samboll? Any ideas?

    Thread Starter jasondunn

    (@jasondunn)

    17 years, 3 months ago

    A friend of mine, the guy who designed my blog template, fixed the problem, so I thought I’d share the solution here:

    Oh, it seems the << and >> characters in the template weren’t being parsed properly. So I changed them to the proper escape characters.
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