Annoying  symbols appearing in wordpress migrate to ...encoding effect or MySQL version effect?
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If you see that character then the source data is UTF-8. Try looking at what your browser is interpreting the charset as.
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. waiting to hear back from support. Yeah, UTF-8 source...mysqldump of db created in 2007 on dreamhost
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Although it can get mangled in between (e.g. if actual utf8 text is treated as latin1 and "converted" to utf8).
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yeah, there seem to be many such stories online of actual vs. converted vs. treated-as and other crap.
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If whatever sets Content-Type is telling the browser that the content is anything other than UTF-8, you'll see that effect.
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I don't have anything compelling to say, other than that I am screwing around with twitter. :)
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