| From: Stewart C. Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | I have been running a WordPress blog hosted on a Linux-based shared host since | WordPress became a thing. It has worked quite well from about 2004 up until a | few weeks ago.
Do you have shell access? I think you imply "yes". | Sadly, *something* recently decided my database encoding was wrong. And that | something decided to "fix" it. It certainly "fixed it", but not in any way I | could want. It also did the same for Catherine's blog. Does "fix it" mean "changed the raw data" or mangle the data somewhere downstream of the disk files? | I know I didn't change any part of the config chain. As far as I can see: | | * the MySQL database still thinks the text is encoded in UTF-8; | | * Wordpress thinks the data is in UTF-8; | | * the web server is serving UTF-8. And says so: <meta charset>"UTF-8" /> | I'm pretty much resigned to going through 16+ years of posts fixing this, but | can mangled UTF-8 be recovered without rekeying? Back-ups? --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk