# \[URGENT\] Problem with encoding :(

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-problem-with-encoding/265049>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-problem-with-encoding/265049 "2008-07-03T10:43:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![ya3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/e95f7d/32.png) [@ya3](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ya3)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 10:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-problem-with-encoding/265049/1 "2008-07-03T10:43:07Z")

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Look at all those weird characters in the body text. They’re everywhere.  
I’ve just migrated the site from an OS X 10.5 Server running PHP 5 and MySQL 5 to a \*nix server with PHP 5 (I think) and MySQL 4.

- Site was made using CMS Made Simple (CMSMS)
- Default encoding throughout the CMS system is UTF-8
- Tables are encoded in latin1\_swedish\_ci (MySQL 5 default)
- Tables were exported to a file from the OS X server using phpmyadmin
- Tables were imported into new server using phpmyadmin

All the text displayed FINE on the previous server, but I get all these weird characters on the new server. I’ve tried changing the tables to a different encoding, but nothing happens.

What’s happening?? It’s driving me insane ☹ ☹ ☹

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**Author:** ![evildrummer](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/evildrummer/32/2308_2.png) [@evildrummer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/evildrummer)\
**Post date:** [July 3, 2008, 11:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/urgent-problem-with-encoding/265049/2 "2008-07-03T11:40:24Z")

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Have you tried changing one of the letters in the CMS? Just to see what happens, from what I can see it’s only doing it on:

’ , ",  
and &nbsp;

Also look in PHPMyAdmin and see if it’s saved in there as that or saved as it’s actual character.