Strange characters instead of áéíóú?

[myuption]

So… I’m translating to Spanish and I see characters like � instead of the regular letters with accents, also special characters like ñ or ¿ appear with that question mark inside a box.

Does it have to be with the database encoding? It is utf8_general_ci.

Either way, tried to put this:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

In the header php, but still got the same errors… any ideas? 🙁

Thanks

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Hey, could you show us your website please?

[myuption]

Aww… it is running in a xampp version.

I attached an example of the symbols.

Thanks

[myuption]

I can’t edit my post

&a acute; for á and so on

[myuption]

I thought this might be a wordpress problem, so I installed the spanish version to test the theme and it’s the same, is there any solution to this besides translating and replacing characters with html code? 🙁

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

I will ask the developer about that!
Thank you for the patience!

(subscribed)

[Swift Ideas – Ed]

Try this:

1) Open wp-config.php;
2) Find:

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

3) Change it to:

/*define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');*/

– Ed

[Cosmin – SUPPORT]

Additionally, if translating the theme, make sure to work in UTF-8 in POEdit.

Regards,

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Cosmin
Support Assistant

[myuption]

Thank you Cosmin, it was POEdit, after I set it to utf-8 everything worked. 😀

[Melanie – SUPPORT]

Fantastic! Thanks for posting back!