Wordpress showing weird characters in content after migrating to a new server

Question

My wordpress site [WordPress 3.3.1] shows weird characters in content after moving to a new server. But in my local server its working fine.

For example it shows we're solving as weâ€™re solving!

In my wp-config file i have the following charset

define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8');
define('DB_COLLATE', '');

I have the same "utf8_general_ci" collation in both local and new server database.

TheDeadMedic · Answer 1 · 2012-08-07 11:26:54Z

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Make sure "Encoding for pages and feeds" is set as "UTF-8" under Settings ⇒ Reading.

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answered Aug 7 '12 at 11:26

TheDeadMedic
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	I have changed the encoding in settings=>reading tab to "UTF-8" But still the content is showing weired characters! I have checked the header info of the site by using firebug, it shows Content-Encoding gzip Content-Type text/html; charset=UTF-8 – Lakshmanan PHP Aug 8 '12 at 10:36
	Sounds like you've got a caching plugin enabled? If so, clear out the cache & try again. Failing that, disable the plugin. – TheDeadMedic Aug 8 '12 at 10:56

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