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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Well, the subset of UTF-8 that is also encoded by ISO-8859-1, is also *valid* (if garbled) ISO-8859-1.

