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Is this a wordpress bug?

Discussion in 'Site & Server Administration' started by bbrian017, Jul 16, 2009.

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    I see this often on many blogs and I'm thinking it's a word press bug.

    You ever notice out of no where all apostrophes used in word press will turn into weird characters?

    Just search Google for 

    ’
    Code (markup):
    or

    â€
    Code (markup):
    Why is this happening?

    I notice it a lot on my social network for bloggers

    http://www.blogengage.com/

    Simply search that again on my site and I have 24 pages! When searching it on my site you have to add a space before the characters or nothing comes up!


    Any ideas?
     
    bbrian017, Jul 16, 2009 IP
  2. RHS-Chris

    RHS-Chris Well-Known Member

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    I would check the which charset your database is using.
     
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    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    If the issue was on my end why does it only happen to specific articles?

    If the issue was on my end wouldn't all of the articles be like this?
     
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    kailash Well-Known Member

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    It could be due to incorrect collation set for your MySQL database but I am not sure. I have two wordpress blogs and didn't face such problem.
     
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    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    I have 4 wordpress blogs I have the issue on one blog at one point!

    Specifically old blogs or old articles
     
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    theapparatus Peon

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    Usually happens when they've exported out their blog's contents as one charset and imported elsewhere into a database of another charset. Wordpress is setup to work with utf8 but many english language CPanel installs default to latin-something.

    edit: You're probably seeing it more oftne since wp.com uses utf8 and folks are starting their blogs and elsewhere to their own installs.
     
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  7. bbrian017

    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    Could it still happen if the data was manually imported?

    We have no auto import.. I don't think anyways!
     
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    theapparatus Peon

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    By importing and exporting, I mean Dashboard -> Manage -? Export/Import. With the XML file you get.

    Not sure what you mean by manually importing and exporting.
     
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  9. bbrian017

    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    Sorry I mis understood you!

    I thought you were referring to my sites data and not a wordpess blogs data!

    All my data on my website is manually entered!

    Users go though a submit process http://www.blogengage.com
     
    bbrian017, Jul 16, 2009 IP
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    The characters are showing on your site, because pligg doesn't strip out or sanitize the title.

    An example on your site- Kate Gosselin Speaks, Defends The “Spanking Of Leah
    On the blog - Kate Gosselin Speaks, Defends The “Spanking” Of Leah

    You can see Pligg is changing any & " ; characters into these.
    I would try searching the pligg forum for a solution.

    In Wordpress version 2.2 this problem showed up in posts. So older posts that never got re-edited the problem is still there in their posts even though their Wordpress is upgraded to the latest.

    Hope that helps.
     
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    bbrian017 Well-Known Member

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    yeah I thought it was a pligg issue!
     
    bbrian017, Jul 21, 2009 IP