Weird Symbols in Database

Discussion in 'Databases' started by value, Dec 30, 2008.

  1. #1
    I recently switched servers on one of my blogs. So I downloaded the database and when I uploaded it to the new server it has all types of wierd symbols dispaying on the content.

    For example:
    â€Å

    What is this from?
     
    value, Dec 30, 2008 IP
  2. jestep

    jestep Prominent Member

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    Usually it's caused by a character encoding mismatch. You need to match the encoding of the new database with the exact encoding of the old database. Hopefully that solves the problem.
     
    jestep, Dec 30, 2008 IP