Title: utf-8 upgrade problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# utf-8 upgrade problems

 *  [dementrio](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dementrio/)
 * (@dementrio)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-upgrade-problems/)
 * I imported my 1.2 wordpress version database into a ‘test’ machine running 1.5,
   to simulate an upgrade. both 1.2 and 1.5 are set to utf-8 encoding, but on 1.5
   I get to see strange symbols and stuff, like if it is showing the page as iso.
   What did I do that’s wrong?

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 *  [shad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shad/)
 * (@shad)
 * [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-upgrade-problems/#post-136533)
 * I got the exactly same problem, when I check the databases, I can see its in 
   utf-8 but as soon as I run trough the update.php page, it seem that every post,
   comment and title transform to iso8859-1:
    if I check my main page, I see garbled
   text but if I switch the browser character encoding to iso8859-1, I can see correctly
   french and western european accentued characters but asian one keep displayed
   wrongly.
 * Im using MySQL 4.1 with
    default-character-set = utf8 set to the [client] and[
   mysqld] sections and my locales are fr_FR.UTF-8

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 * Last reply from: [shad](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shad/)
 * Last activity: [21 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf-8-upgrade-problems/#post-136533)
 * Status: not resolved

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