Title: WordPress displaying wrong characters
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress displaying wrong characters

 *  [everglow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everglow/)
 * (@everglow)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-displaying-wrong-characters/)
 * I just transferred my database over from an old server to a new server, and WordPress
   is displaying all of my ‘ marks as ?. It is also randomly inputting ? after periods.
 * Check it out here: [http://dan.create42.com](http://dan.create42.com)
 * Any ideas on what to do?

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 *  [Pizdin Dim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pizdin_dim/)
 * (@pizdin_dim)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-displaying-wrong-characters/#post-519694)
 * No joy in seeing anything apart from a directory listing at that URI, so I can’t
   check anything. Could there be a mismatch between the character encoding you 
   specify in the HTML header and the one your database uses?
 *  Thread Starter [everglow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everglow/)
 * (@everglow)
 * [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-displaying-wrong-characters/#post-519702)
 * Got it fixed — I used the XML export plugin for my 2.0.1 install and then just
   imported the XML into my new 2.1 install using the WordPress Import option. Worked
   wonderfully!
 * Since this has solved my problem, I have no reason to check the character encoding
   logs, although it’s very likely that was the issue.
 * Is there a way to format an XML document for different encoding? I was having
   this exactly problem with a Xanga plugin. Would I just edit the character encoding
   name at the top of my XML document?

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 * Last reply from: [everglow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everglow/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-displaying-wrong-characters/#post-519702)
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