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Hi,

I’m running a site on EE 1.6.1, and after my web host upgraded their server recently, I have a strange problem with HTML characters. HTML special characters, such as curly quotes, register marks, etc., that formerly worked properly are now broken.

I’ve tried turning on the global weblog setting for converting ASCII characters to entities, but that didn’t help.

Any thoughts on another way to fix this sitewide, without manually editing each post?

Thanks,
Sharif

Hi, Sharif28.

1.6.1 is quite old. You really should consider upgrading to 1.7.0. Are you using UTF-8? What changed MySQL wise?

I’m not sure of the details of the server change… it was a Media Temple account, and they migrated the site from an outdated shared server to their new grid server.

What do you mean by using UTF-8? Where would I check that setting?

Sharif28,

Can yo be more specific about what you mean by broken? Have you got a link to where we can see this happening?

What do you mean by using UTF-8? Where would I check that setting?

Under XML Character Encoding in Admin > Weblog Administration > Weblog Management > Edit Preferences and in combination with {charset} in your templates

I had a previous problem (outlined in this forum post) where a host’s security library was parsing any data sent from text fields. I was screwing up the charset in my header template.

Maybe this is a similar problem?

Thanks, guys… XML Character Encoding was set to UTF, but the corresponding meta tag was missing. Updated that and problem solved.

Excellent news. Please don’t hesitate to post again as needed.