Comments on: Stop Junk Characters ‘â€TM’ from Appearing Instead of an Apostrophe

By: Mirabella

Mirabella — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:44:54 +0000

Thanks for this post. I only wish that I’d stumbled on to it when I faced this problem a few months ago. Not finding any ready-made solution at the time, I began the long and tedious process of making this correction manually. Since I still had a few posts uncorrected, I tried out your solution today. It works – but, I’d to use /* to begin the comment and */ to end it, instead of the # character you’ve suggested.
+1

By: hubbers

hubbers — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 20:07:08 +0000

you need to run a query like this one on your database

UPDATE wp_posts SET post_content = replace( post_content, ‘â€™’, “‘” )

be warned that if you have one badly encoded character then you will have loads for ” £ ‘ – _ etc and they will all have to be fixed very carefully.

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By: Luis

Luis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:54:02 +0000

Jump in means get into (what else?) – Commenting out is as simple as adding # sign before the lines (as I displayed it,) or you can wrap it in /* these two awesome things */ to comment them out.

By: Ross Spencer

Ross Spencer — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 16:16:11 +0000

What the hell does “jump” in mean and wp-config and “comment out” mean. Thanks for confusing me even more.

And Tadd, how doid you (I suppose inadvertently) move your data base?

By: Ketharaman Swaminathan

Ketharaman Swaminathan — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 09:43:50 +0000

However, the catch is, after incorporating your suggested changes, posts that I’d manually corrected in the meanwhile started displaying a square-like junk character. Had I not bothered with the manual correction, I’m sure your solution would’ve worked like a dream!

For the uninitiated – in whose ranks I myself belonged until I cracked it today – the wp-config.php file you’ve referred to can be found on the root of your blog, which in my case was http://www.sketharaman.com/blog.

By: Tadd Mencer

Tadd Mencer — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:39:16 +0000

Ya know, I just moved my database and had this same problem. Was extremely frustrating. Thanks for this – did exactly what was needed!