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I have the db set at UTF-8. I have a special keyboard that uses Igbo (Nigerian) characters. The characters show correctly as I type in the editor but when I save it - the characters are not correct. Is there a way that I can save the characters correctly?

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Not a WordPress question, this is a character encoding question. – EAMann♦ Dec 6 '11 at 17:49

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It's not a WP issue, but anyway, you can take a look here. utf_de/encode() makes it possible to alter/remove unneeded stuff before saving/displaying.

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It's strange because when I type in a Word doc - the characters are correct but not in the text editor in WP – Kevin Dec 6 '11 at 12:41
Are you porting (copy/paste, whatever) from Word to WP? – kaiser Dec 6 '11 at 15:26
no - typing from a keyboard that has the special characters. For example, if I type the special characters, it comes out as ?nw?. The two question marks replace the special characters – Kevin Dec 6 '11 at 15:41
Check your charset under the settings in the admin UI... – kaiser Dec 6 '11 at 15:45
Are you referring to the WP admin? I went under settings but do not see anything I can change. The rss is set to utf-8 that's about it – Kevin Dec 6 '11 at 16:52
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