Title: Weird character encoding issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Weird character encoding issue

 *  [loauc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loauc/)
 * (@loauc)
 * [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-character-encoding-issue/)
 * I have a site running smoothly with WP 2.0.5. Now I decided to back it up on 
   my laptop and I found something weird.
 * I downloaded all the directory structure and then proceded to backup the database.
   I then tried to re-create it locally and found that accented characters where
   displaying improperly. I thought I just messed up the procedure.
 * After several attempts paying attention to every little detail I poked into the
   remote database with phpMyAdmin and to my surprise I could see weird characters*
   inside* the contents of my wp_post table.
 * This is really weird because they display properly on the site (www.interescena.
   com) but if I try to replicate a working installation of it I fail.
 * As far as I can check, everything should be UTF-8 and it is so. I can go inside
   the admin panel and in the reading options I find UTF-8 as the encoding for posts
   and feeds.
 * If I check the meta tag in the head of the index page I also find it’s UTF-8.
 * What else can I verify?
 * Felix.

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 * Last reply from: [loauc](https://wordpress.org/support/users/loauc/)
 * Last activity: [18 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/weird-character-encoding-issue/)
 * Status: not resolved

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