@villares@ciberlandia.pt#FediHelp #WordPress #encoding
A friend told me something changed in his dreamhost co-hosted WordPress blog in 2021 and his previous posts now had encoding problems (we use lots of accented characters in Portuguese), but his current posts, after 2021 work OK.
Has anyone seen this? I'll have more information next Saturday, but I decided to ask in case it was a common, known issue...
Broken page: http://www.zegeraldo.lugaralgum.com/?m=202001
OK page: http://www.zegeraldo.lugaralgum.com/?m=202203
@villaresI think this will be harder to fix now because he'll have a database with lots of posts (about 20 years of posts) in a broken encoding and 3 years of posts in a new working encoding... may the MySQL&PHP gods help me.
Update: posting here to my own reference: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/issue-displaying-japanese-text-on-old-posts/
@villares I'm not sure what the solution is, but it's not uncommon. At some point WordPress got updated in a way that changed the way text was written to the database.
I ran into this issue before during an update 6 months or so ago, and there was a config change (in wp-config) I did to go back to the old way. Not sure if it would help here.
@villares@zeh thanks for sharing this, Zeh, it will be useful information when I get to tackle this puzzle.
Wordpress is a mess!
I panicked every update.