Title: UTF8 Problems?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# UTF8 Problems?

 *  [jamespoling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamespoling/)
 * (@jamespoling)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/)
 * I’m moving to a new host and trying to move my database using phpMyAdmin to export
   from the old DB and import to tne new DB.
 * I’m having trouble with some quirky characters showing up. It seems it’s mostly
   happening on certain quotation marks.
 * _“The sad part about Elisabeth is that she is the dumbest person on television,
   � Trump told “Inside Edition.� “I mean she’s supporting the war in 
   Iraq, which is pretty hard to do.�_
 * _“Don’t block the box” signs have been around NYC for a while but they seem to
   be about as effective as the no honking signs that are plastered everywhere.Â_
 * _Suing YouTube is the new black.  The NJTA is suing YouTube for the removal
   of a video that shows a pretty horrific single car accident that was caught on
   tape an NJTA camera.Â_
 * I’ve done some searches here and it seems like some people have had the same 
   issue but when upgrading. I’m moving from 2.2 to 2.2.
 * I also can’t seem to find one total solution to stop this from happening. I’m
   wondering if SSH’ing the DB over would perhaps fix this, although I have no idea
   how to SSH so I’m not sure I could even do it.
 * Is there one surefire fix for this issue?

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 *  [lelion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lelion/)
 * (@lelion)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/#post-574556)
 * Search the forums here… You’ll find a lot of threads which might help you:)
 * Basically, it could be related to SET NAMES and COLLATION in the MySQL… Search
   well!
 * Someone more experienced than me can help you more on that…
 *  Thread Starter [jamespoling](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamespoling/)
 * (@jamespoling)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/#post-574612)
 * does anyone know if SSH’ing the DB instead of using phpMyAdmin will result in
   the same issues?
 *  [lelion](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lelion/)
 * (@lelion)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/#post-574662)
 * I dunno…
 * Maybe different hosts run different versions of MySQL. Or maybe it’s related 
   to the default connection to the database… I am not very good at that, sorry :-/
 * SET NAMES, COLLATION can help, dig deeper…
 * Would be nice if someone with a lot of experience of MySQL and how PHP scripts
   interact with it (concerning the encoding issue) would post something here.. 
   🙂
 *  [bigbri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbri/)
 * (@bigbri)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/#post-574696)
 * [My Solution](http://www.bigbri.net/?p=88)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [bigbri](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bigbri/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/utf8-problems/#post-574696)
 * Status: not resolved

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