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While writing a new blog post on my WordPress blog, I noticed that it is converting '✓' (checkmark) to '?' (question mark). I am using the classic editor (not the block one).

I tried to enter the ✓ character in multiple ways like using the ✓ HTML entity also but as soon as I moved to the visual tab on the editor the character changed back to ?.

I read somewhere that commenting the following lines in wp-config.php fixes this issue.

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

In my case committing these two lines fixed the issue for this very blog post but all the older posts seem to be messed up.

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  • Shouldn't you be using UTF8? What's the default if you do turn that off?
    – Rup
    Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 9:36
  • How is the checkmark saved in the old posts in the database? As a ?, or as a UTF-8 sequence, or some other character?
    – Rup
    Commented Oct 14, 2021 at 9:37

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