Title: utf-8 encoding problem Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # utf-8 encoding problem * Resolved [lumilux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumilux/) * (@lumilux) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-problem/) * Instead of single closing quotation marks (and other similar symbols), some posts show strange character strings such as ’. * I am using W3 Total Cache, with a database collation of utf8_general_ci and a character encoding of UTF-8. The incorrect characters go away if I clear the disk cache and refresh, but they return after a little while. * I currently have the following in my wp-config.php: * ``` define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8'); define('DB_COLLATE', 'utf8_general_ci'); ``` * Commenting out the lines only caused more obvious encoding problems. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [dcannon1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcannon1/) * (@dcannon1) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-problem/#post-1412573) * Is your database using utf8 encoding as well? * Thread Starter [lumilux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumilux/) * (@lumilux) * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-problem/#post-1412621) * Yes. I think I’ve solved it by putting this in my ``: `` * [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * (@fredericktownes) * [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-problem/#post-1412741) * Ok, thanks [@dcannon1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dcannon1/)! [@lumilux](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lumilux/), can you mark this as resolved? Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘utf-8 encoding problem’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [cache](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cache/) * [character set](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/character-set/) * [encoding](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/encoding/) * [strange characters](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/strange-characters/) * [utf8](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/utf8/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 3 replies * 3 participants * Last reply from: [Frederick Townes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericktownes/) * Last activity: [16 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-encoding-problem/#post-1412741) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics