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1. djwebb2010
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 8:51 AM

   Hi, my blog at corkirish.wordpress.com previously worked well, but I notice today for no reason I know of that accent marks (á, é, í, ó, and ú) in the list of pages and categories on the right hand side of the blog are now corrupted and appear as square boxes. Accents used in the actual text of blogposts are still rendered fine. Does anyone know why accent marks are now not displaying correctly in some parts of the blog architecture? Is this an update done by WordPress? Thanks.

   The blog I need help with is corkirish.wordpress.com.

2. tandava108
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 9:00 AM

   Interestingly the main article seems to be correctly encoded in Unicode but the menu in extended ascii (ISO-8859-1). If you change your browser's character encoding to ISO-8859-1 the menu bar has the correct diacritics and the main article does not.

   I know this isn't an answer but it might give someone else a clue to what's going on.

3. djwebb2010
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 9:03 AM

   Thank you that is probably relevant Everything displayed right yesterday - so WordPress has done something.

4. djwebb2010
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 9:06 AM

   It's possibly because WordPress Classic was an old unsupported theme. By changing the theme, the problem has reslved itself.

5. yt75
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 9:17 AM

   hello I have the same problem, any idea how to fix that without changing the theme ?
   Blog :
   http://iiscn.wordpress.com/

6. tandava108
   Member
   Jan 9, 2013, 9:20 AM

   It appears to be a general problem, there are other forum posts showing the same problem

7. jenia
   Staff
   Jan 10, 2013, 2:47 PM

   Hi all, I checked your websites but have not been able to reproduce the problem so far (the sidebar displaying question marks instead of diacritics). So that I can investigate further, would you mind doing the following:
   1) Make a full-screen screenshot of a page where you are seeing the issue, upload it to your Media Library, and link to it here.
   2) Let me know which browser and version you are using.
   3) Let me know if you copy-pasted the content from elsewhere (e.g. Microsoft Word).

   Thanks so much in advance!

8. jenia
   Staff
   Jan 10, 2013, 2:52 PM

   Hi all, quick update that the issue has since been resolved, no need to post the screenshots. If you are still seeing the bad characters, please try clearing your cache.

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