Ok, all my WP gurus...I have a client who is getting the strange characters showing up in her posts. She says she is typing the posts directly into WP and not doing any copying and pasting.

Any ideas on why this is happening?

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

The only reason that I know this to happen is when you copy and paste. Do they have add-ins or widgets that could be conflicting?

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Lee Drozak
My Office Assistant

Originally Posted by JKVirtualOffice

Ok, all my WP gurus...I have a client who is getting the strange characters showing up in her posts. She says she is typing the posts directly into WP and not doing any copying and pasting. Any ideas on why this is happening?

She could try copying the text into Wordpad, saving the file as a .txt, and then copy/paste from the text file back into her posts.

But, did she/you do a recent upgrade?

What version of WP is she using?

It could be a UTF-8 encoding problem. I would see if there is a UTF-8 Database Converter plugin available for whatever version of WP you/she is using. If not, then check the database, all the tables in the database, the config.php file, and the encoding in the dashboard to make sure they are all set to UTF-8 encoding.

You can also go to PHPMyAdmin and check and then alter the database for wp-posts, which might be latin1_swedish_ci, and change it to utf8_unicode_ci.

Before making any changes make sure to do a backup!

Not sure if I helped or not...

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Jules, SunRise Virtual Solutions - WordPress Customization & XHTML/CSS Web Sites

I haven't worked on her blog before. She mostly hired me to help her with Facebook, and then had this weird thing happen in her blog where most of her sidebar widgets disappeared and the strange characters where in her blog posts. She just asked me to take a look at it to see if I could help. My WP skills are pretty limited- which I told her, but I said I'd check to see if we could figure out the problem. I haven't worked on her blog at all so I'm not sure if there was any new plug-ins added or even what version of WP she is using. She's not very tech savvy and can't really answer my more technical questions. She has a web person but hasn't been able to get a hold of them.

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

Kimberly,

Can you send us the link to her blog to see what these characters look like?

Mimi

Thanks for the offer, but it's been taken care of by my client's web person.

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Kimberly
Facebook Marketing Magic!

Kimberly,

Just curious, did you find out what the problem was?

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Lee Drozak
My Office Assistant