UTF8 not working after upgrade in Technical Problems Posted June 10, 2021 · Edited June 16, 2021 by sate Hi everyone. Recently I upgraded 3.4.6 to latest 4.5.2 version. All went fine but the enconding were a mess. There were no errors during the upgrade, all checks were green and the UTF8 convertor did not showed any errors. Now I am with unreadable content and I seek help. The hosting that I am using has defauld charset latin1, should I ask them to change the server charset to UTF8 ? Any advice will be helpful. I already addressed the support, but the said that is on DB level mess. Anyway, I got the same DB for 7 years on my previous version working fine. And again - no errors during the upgrade! Before the upgrade, I was using the same DB with
UTF8 not working after upgrade
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Posted · Edited by sate
Hi everyone.
Recently I upgraded 3.4.6 to latest 4.5.2 version.
All went fine but the enconding were a mess.
There were no errors during the upgrade, all checks were green and the UTF8 convertor did not showed any errors.
Now I am with unreadable content and I seek help.
The hosting that I am using has defauld charset latin1, should I ask them to change the server charset to UTF8 ?
Any advice will be helpful.
I already addressed the support, but the said that is on DB level mess. Anyway, I got the same DB for 7 years on my previous version working fine.
And again - no errors during the upgrade!
Before the upgrade, I was using the same DB with